Last Tuesday I stepped on my bathroom scale and it said I was 11 pounds heavier than the week before. I panicked for a solid hour before realizing the scale was sitting on a folded towel and the carpet underneath was uneven. Moved it to the tile floor in the kitchen and suddenly I was back to my normal weight. Anyone else ever get tricked by a scale that was just sitting wrong on the floor?
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Stopped at a little place outside Reno last Tuesday, and the specials board said any combo was $6 even. I ordered what added up to $5.75 on the itemized menu, so I asked the waitress about it. She shrugged and said the owner rounds all prices up to keep the change simple, then they subtract a nickel if you pay cash. I did the math on my receipt and it took me three tries to find where the extra quarter went. Has anyone else run into a business that just decides how numbers work?
She insisted we split the tab by who ate what, but she forgot the tax and tip math, so we all ended up paying $4 extra each and the waiter got stiffed. Has anyone else had a 'fair' split that somehow turned into the worst math fail?