>
> On Feb 26, 2008, at 2:55 AM, Alan B. Pearce wrote:
>
>>> Obnoxious, but I like to be deliberately slow getting out change  
>>> when
>>> I'm paying cash. Usually the clerk gets in a hurry and keys the bill
>>> amount and just totals out before I ever get out the $0.03 it would
>>> take to get me back a nice pile of silver. Nothing brings a store  
>>> to a
>>> halt faster then watching them try to make change in their heads! :)
>>
>> What is amazing is how few cashiers can handle the following  
>> circumstance:
>>
>> Total bill:  6.38.  I hand the cashier 21.38.  They look at me  
>> like I've
>> lost my mind - they can't figure out why I'm handing them the "extra
>> dollar".   Like I said, it's amazing how many cashiers don't get  
>> this one.
>>
>> Even more fun is when the total is something like 5.98 and you had  
>> them
>> $11.03.  (Ten dollar bill, one dollar bill, and those 3 pennies which
>> are rattling around in your pocket).   Since it involves a carry (or
>> borrow) or two, I'll give most people some slack on this on.
>
> Reminds me of a story my grandfather used to tell, about going into  
> a store
> for some clothes pegs. This would have been just before or just  
> after WW2.
>
> Grandfather: I'll have a gross of clothes pegs please.
> Dumb assistant: Sorry, we don't have them in a gross, but we do  
> have them in
> 12 dozen.
>
> Anyone familiar with old weights and measures will know that a  
> gross and 12
> dozen are the same quantity. And they say that schooling is going  
> downhill
> these days ...

Sorry, you are not as familiar with the old weights and measures as  
you think you are.  A gross is a dozen dozen.  A gross is not 12  
dozen.  Get it right !
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