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I once had to pay $5 and I gave the chick three one-dollar bills and a two-dollar bill. She counted it and said it wasn't enough. I laughed and told her to count it again. By the third or fourth count she finally figured it out.

I've been forced to talk to managers before to convince them a $2 bill is real. I know it isn't a very common note in circulation but still, damn.

Re: People who can't do basic math

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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles Today I was ordering some chicken at the grocery store. I told the woman who has helping me that I wanted three-quarters of a pound. She repeats it back to me; "three-fourths of a pound?" I say, "Yeah." She puts some chicken on the scale until the digital readout says like ".45 pounds" or something. Then she says, "Is that enough?" I say, "I asked for three-quarters of a pound..." And she says something like, "I know, but I don't know how much that is." I almost said, "You have a scale right in front of you that tells you how much is on it," but then it dawned on me that she probably didn't know that the decimal form of "three-quarters" was ".75." Then she put a little more on so that it read ".65" or something, and I didn't want to bother with her innumeracy anymore, so I left it at that and paid for the chicken...

I'd like to point out that your story has no adjectives with negative connotation. The closest you got was "innumeracy". Nice. LOL

A good measure of one's personality and disposition, surely. Kudos.

Re: People who can't do basic math

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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles Today I was ordering some chicken at the grocery store. I told the woman who has helping me that I wanted three-quarters of a pound. She repeats it back to me; "three-fourths of a pound?" I say, "Yeah." She puts some chicken on the scale until the digital readout says like ".45 pounds" or something. Then she says, "Is that enough?" I say, "I asked for three-quarters of a pound..." And she says something like, "I know, but I don't know how much that is." I almost said, "You have a scale right in front of you that tells you how much is on it," but then it dawned on me that she probably didn't know that the decimal form of "three-quarters" was ".75." Then she put a little more on so that it read ".65" or something, and I didn't want to bother with her innumeracy anymore, so I left it at that and paid for the chicken...

You should've gone GO COUNT YOUR DICK and left.

I read 80% (.70) of this thread.

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Originally posted by eckmek Funny how? I mean funny like I'm a clown, I amuse you? I make you laugh, I'm here to fuckin' amuse you? What do you mean funny, funny how? How am I funny?

Fixed.

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Originally posted by CleverName I've been forced to talk to managers before to convince them a $2 bill is real. I know it isn't a very common note in circulation but still, damn.

LOL this is hilarious.

Sounds not too much chicken there. You should have bought 75 and not .75 pounds, like a 35-kilo chicken now thats a meal

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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles Fixed.

Did i unintentionally almost-quote something there?

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Originally posted by eckmek Did i unintentionally almost-quote something there?

Yep.

I know quite a few people who can't do basic meth

Heart conditions and shit.

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