"Dave Smith" > wrote in message
...
> On 2015-07-18 2:11 PM, Paul M. Cook wrote:
>> "Dave Smith" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> I had to pick up some stuff at the butcher/deli down the road from me.
>>> While I was checking out I grabbed some bananas. The cashier looked a
>>> little confused and then started counting them and said something about
>>> them being 50 cents apiece. I looked at her puzzled and then told her
>>> they
>>> are bananas. They are sold by the pound. Doh. A hand of 6 bananas
>>> would
>>> have been $3.
>>
>>
>> A deli would sell by the piece. They also sell cold cuts by the slice.
>> You
>> probably cost that poor kid her job. Congrats.
>>
>
> No Einstein. She had looked up the price and counted them out. When I
> said they were sold by the pound not by the piece she looked again and
> weighed them. I shop at the store frequently and I often by bananas, and
> they are always sold by the pound.

By bananas? How could she have looked up the per piece price if they were
not sold that way? Little hole in your story there, Mr. Keillor.



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