"Dave Smith" > wrote in message
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> On 2015-07-19 6:13 PM, Paul M. Cook wrote:
>> "Dave Smith" > wrote in message
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>>> On 2015-07-18 2:11 PM, Paul M. Cook wrote:
>>>> "Dave Smith" > wrote in message
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>>>>> 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.
>>
>>
>
> How about she looked it up and saw the 50 cents and assumed it was by the
> pound, because when I questioned it and she looked it up she charged by
> the pound, and at the same rare per pound that they usually are.

Rare per pound? You not speaky so good Engrish.
>



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