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DJ Shibby
Amphoteric Superbase

Registered: Jul 2004
Location: Of Earthzen and the Therethen
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Re: People who can't do basic math
| quote: | 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.
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Jun-25-2008 15:02
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Cloudburst
I am the maximum

Registered: Oct 2003
Location: Jötebårj
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Jun-25-2008 17:48
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