"taxed and spent" > wrote in message
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> "Paul M. Cook" > wrote in message
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>> "Ed Pawlowski" > wrote in message
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>>> On 7/19/2015 3:58 PM, Paul M. Cook wrote:
>>>> "Ed Pawlowski" > wrote in message
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>>>>> On 7/18/2015 2:11 PM, Paul M. Cook wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> A deli would sell by the piece. They also sell cold cuts by the
>>>>>> slice.
>>>>>> You
>>>>>> probably cost that poor kid her job. Congrats.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> By the slice? Never saw such a thing. You mean like ham is 12 cents a
>>>>> slice, turkey is 10 cents?
>>>>
>>>> Never heard of a of a scale, did you, Einstein?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> You said they sell it by the slice. If they use a scale, they are
>>> selling it by the pound. Learn the difference before you make snide
>>> remarks.
>>
>> me: I will have 4 slices of the mortadella.
>>
>> worker: Slices 4 cuts. Places it on the scale, dials the number for
>> mortadella. That will be 1.23 cents.
>>
>> me: Thank you
>
> did you let her keep the rest of the two cents?

1.23 cents is a perfectly acceptable way to say 1 dollar and 23 cents
because it is understood we are talking currency. In this case US curency
and not the pound, yen, baht or dong. Most school children know this.



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