Wednesday, March 10, 2010

When 15 > 25?

A customer walked into our auto-parts store looking for a flat washer. "That'll be 15 cents," I said.

"Fifteen cents for a washer? Are you crazy?" he yelled. "I'll drill a hole in a quarter and make my own."
Jack Reeves

[Source: Reader's Digest, August 2009, @Work (p. 67)]