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I asked for "Chocolaty Chip Cookies" and got six cartons of milk.

What penny? We were talking tenners! :-)

Another possibility would have been for you to take *anything*: one of the items your bought, a fiver, a 10p piece, your smelly hanky, or your tatty shopping list, and to tell her "Look, let's pretend this is a tenner. Here, have it, and then you can give it back to me and I promise to accept it as being a tenner as part of those £13.".

I was going to respond to every comment you made - but I just say I disagree

So it didn't even occur to them to give you an unused carton straight from the pile? Bizarre.

Do you think that wouldn't confuse her even more?

Yes, I do. The intellectually-challenged tend to relate rather well to pretending-games.

You could have said "Give me the £13 first, then I'll give you £10.".

Ah, but the purpose could be to amuse, rather than to educate.

Back in 1982 I was in Smithies Bar in Edinburgh. The fancy new bar tills where the barmaids can press a button for "Lager" or whatever had just come in.

The power for the whole area went out. The bar had clearly seen this before because they very quickly brought out candles. We soon ran out of drink and I headed to the bar and ordered three pints. The barmaid said she couldn't serve me because the till was off. I said that was OK because I'd give her the cash and she could ring it up on the till when the power came back. She asked how she would know how much the round would cost. I pointed out that the price of a pint was on the list behind her, as required by law. If she liked, I'd multiply the price by three for her.

"But how will I know that you're right? No. You'll have to wait until the till is back on..."

FoFP

Uni halls of Residence bar - student wanted 10 bottles of beer. The poor woman didn't know how to work out how much it cost so she rang it up on the till...

Not used to working with such small multiples of beer, eh?

nice one, but what a berk she was!

LOL! When I worked behind a bar we always had to add it all up in our heads - there was only one till!

In message , Mark writes

There is a lovely pub in the lake district where there is just a pile of money on a shelf. The same round was different cost each time it was bought..

How many times can you buy the same round? Do they recycle the beer?

In message , Ronald Raygun writes

Come to think of it, there was a micro brewery behind the gents........

Ultimately, but you would not appreciate the finer detail.

I went to the January sales at Austin Reed a couple of years ago and bought a shirt and a belt, respective sale prices £55 and £25, a total of £80. They also had a deal on at the time which stated that when spending over £75, you got an extra 5% off. I was duly charged £76 and left the store happy.

When I got home, my wife took one look at the shirt and said she'd never be seen out with me wearing it (sadly, this seems to happen quite a lot...). I was busy at the time, so didn't get around to taking it back for a refund until a couple of weeks later. And then the fun started.

Me: "Hi, sorry about this, I was in during the sales and bought this shirt and now I need to return it". Assistant: "Sure, no problem. Do you have your receipt ?" Me: "Yep, here you go" (the receipt clearly shows the individual prices + 5% discount) Assistant: "OK, I'll refund the £55 back onto the card you paid with" Me: "Surely you mean £52.25 ?" Assistant (slightly confused): "No, it's £55, it says so on the receipt" Me: "Yes, but I got a 5% discount because I spent more than £75..." Assistant (smiling as if at a simpleton): "But I'm only refunding £55" Me: "OK, but I actually paid only £52.25 for the shirt because of the discount" Assistant (creasing her brow for a short while, then getting it): "Oh right, I see, so you want me to take the discount off ?" Me: "Yes, seems only fair" Assistant: "I'll refund £51 then, OK ?" Me: "Er, no. £52.25 actually" Assistant (really confused now, a getting a bit peeved): "I thought you wanted me to take off the discount ?" Me: "Yes, but the discount on the shirt was £2.75, not £4" Assistant (in a tone reserved for speaking to small children): "No, look - on the receipt it says £4..." Me: "Hmm, OK, why don't you just scan the shirt and see what the till says ?" Assistant (briefly relieved to be getting rid of this difficult customer, then really confused): "Oh, the till says £75" Me: "That's the non-sale price, right ?" Assistant: "Yes, so ?" Me: "But I bought it in the sale..." Assistant (rather crossly): "Well, the sale's over now isn't it so those prices don't apply any more." Me (emollient, smiling): "OK fine, well if you could just process the refund through the till and we're done".

And she did, for £75, and we were both happy for the rest of the day.

"Nick Fisher" wrote

Actually, no - the assistant was actually right at this point...

If you had not bought the shirt, but only bought the belt (for 25) then you would have got *no* discount at all (because you would have been spending under 75). So the refund should be : what you actually paid before, less what you *should* have paid before (without the shirt) = 76 - 25 = 51. See?