Two Dollars Plus Tax, Plus Lettuce May 16, 2008
Posted by carpebanana in : Bananalets , trackbackToday is a drizzly grey Spring (yes, spring, you Australian readers) day and so Devastatingly Handsome and I took some of the Bananalets to a combination floral/garden/crafts show.
Miss Dog Lover decided she simply had to have a certain ring. We reasoned with her about how easy it would be to make one herself (and keep her allowance intact) but she was not interested. By the time she got to the front of the paying line, she thought maybe making one sounded like a good idea. So back we went to the bin, where she held on to it, tried on a few dozen others, and decided to buy it after all. After about 20 minutes of flip-flopping, she owned the ring.
Before we were out of the building, she wanted to return it. We said that was a no-go and pointed out that she did not even have a receipt, and that now, in any case, we could use hers as a pattern to make our own in all different colors. At that point, she came out with words of wisdom: “Greed makes you buy things you don’t want.”
If she has learned that lesson for two dollars plus tax, it was a bargain.
The next thing out of her mouth was: “I fell in love with a ring. What an experience.”
LOL
Then, we asked Devastatingly Handsome to stop by the grocery store for some lettuce. He walked it up to the register, handed it to the clerk, and announced the coding for her (from memory: the man even knows our congregation’s license plate numbers by heart): “4076.”
“No,” she says, “it’s 4075.”
“What?” he says, “it’s always been 4076.”
Turns out the green leaf lettuce was mislabelled as red. Imagine that. No one takes pride in their work any more.
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Wow! I wish I had a memory like that…as I was thinking about the ring, I was trying to mentally convert it’s cost into Australian dollars…but forgot the simplest formula!
Anyway, looking at my textbook the formula is:
US$ / buy rate = A$
US$2.20* / 0.9529 ~ 2.31 (rounded to two decimal places)
Therefore, the ring is about $2.30 cents Australian.
*Let us assume that tax is approximately 10% in your part of the world…my textbook only provides exact tax information for Canada and Australia.
Seems that rings of that variety cost about the same the world over…if just a trifle cheaper over there.
Have a nice day,
Anika Q
hehehe! I try not to waste brain space with produce codes, but since they put in the self-check aisles, I know the Granny Smith apples are 4017.
Peace and Laughter,
Cristina
She sounds like me…that cant be good, if I am forty and still haven’t learned this lesson.