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People who can't do basic math (pg. 5)
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| Ted Promo |
| quote: | Originally posted by eckmek
I can't ing believe you still don't have kilos and meters. It's incredible. |
We have them, we just call them funny names. |
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| eckmek |
| Funny how? Like a clown funny? Do you think clowns are fun in the same way the american way of using the metric system is? |
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| Jake Benson |
| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| DJ Shibby |
| 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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| Cloudburst |
| 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... |
You should've gone GO COUNT YOUR DICK and left. |
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| Zoso |
| I read 80% (.70) of this thread. |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| quote: | 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 in' amuse you? What do you mean funny, funny how? How am I funny? |
Fixed. :clown: |
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| wotyzoid |
| quote: | 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. |
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| PETRAN |
| Sounds not too much chicken there. You should have bought 75 and not .75 pounds, like a 35-kilo chicken now thats a meal :wtf: |
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| eckmek |
| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
Fixed. :clown: |
Did i unintentionally almost-quote something there? :clown: |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| quote: | Originally posted by eckmek
Did i unintentionally almost-quote something there? :clown: |
Yep. |
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