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Today at the Texaco

January 27th, 2010 Leave a comment Go to comments

I stopped in at the Texaco today for gasoline, a car wash, and windshield wiper fluid.  I pay cash now (more on this later) so I went into the store to pay for the other two things and prepay for my gas.

The car wash and wiper fluid totaled $10.41.

Me:  I also need some gas on pump #7.  I’ll pay you $30 so just put the rest towards gas.

Teller Lady:  Uh…

Me:  (looking at the register sub-total)  … So in other words, I want $19.59 in gas.

Teller Lady:  (punches a bunch of numbers on the register)

Teller Lady:  Okay.  Wow, you were so close!  It’s actually $19.59 in gas.

Yes, I was close.  In fact, it would be hard to be any closer.

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  • Tara

    The dangers of working at a gas station…

  • Ruth

    That’s fantastic!

  • Katie Hansen

    Did you drag her out to the middle of the street and beat her with the bottom of a golf shoe? I think she may possibly fall in the 50% below average category.

  • http://www.mvryan.org matt

    @Katie Hansen
    Oh, she was so nice about it, I couldn’t even bring myself to say anything. I almost said something, but I thought that would just be me trying to save face in front of a bunch of people I don’t know at her expense, so I let her look good instead of me.

  • http://haydentoniafraser.blogspot.com tonia

    Just one more example I can pass on to my poor students who REPETITIVELY SAY “When will we EEEEEEEEEEVVVVVVER use this in real life”

    Oh yeah!

  • http://www.mvryan.org matt

    @tonia
    Better yet, you can tell them, “Well you might not. Like this lady. She doesn’t use math in real life. But then you run the risk of being publicly humiliated, either in person, or on someone’s blog for the rest of eternity. Or, you can learn the math, and then you can use it to publicly humiliate people. Which person would you rather be?”

  • http://www.marksuman.com Mark Suman

    lol.

    I’m interested to hear about why you only pay with cash now? Is this some retro throwback to the way things were before plastic?

  • Katie Hansen

    So are you paying cash because they sometimes charge you more if you swipe your card? Or for some other reason? BTW I’m thinking of doing a book of Dadisms, thus the comments about the golf shoe and 50% of people are below average. Thoughts?

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