Re: [MBZ] Speaking of batteries.....and idiots.
Went to get non-ethanol gas for the lawn equipment yesterday. Got $25 worth and Toni handed the attendant $55. He gave her $25 back and walked off. She told him he owed her another $5. He tried to argue that $25 was the correct change, then got pissed off, went inside and got $5 and walked out and gave it to her. As he walked off he says I can't afford to keep doing this you know to Toni. The owner 2 doors up the road was not pleased with the news when I stopped to chat with him. You would think simple math would be easy for a cashier. Mike On May 30, 2013 10:18 AM, Rich Thomas richthomas79td...@constructivity.net wrote: I took the old battery out of the boy's (to be the girl's) SD and took it to Interstate to swap it, as it was getting a bit weak and not holding a charge. It was an 85 and turned out to be from June 2007 (71 months). So I ask the guy there if that meant I got some credit on a new one. He goes off to check some mysterious book and a couple minutes later comes back and says a swap with the credit will be $158.something but a new one will be $154.something. I took a few seconds to process that, and asked him why with a credit will be more than buying it outright, and he proceeds to explain to me that the credit price is more than the new price because when that battery was new it was more than the new one, and the credit on it made it more than a new one now. Huh, WTF??? So I asked him to explain that again, and he goes through the same thing, but this time less comprehensible. He apparently, perfectly understood the rationale for this apparent contradiction but was not able to explain it to such a simpleton as me. So the battery is sitting there on the counter, he had gone to get it when I said I needed a swap, so I asked him if that same battery, that one right there, had 2 different prices depending on whether I had one to swap for it, then he tells me that he is giving me $10 off the new price so that is why it is less than the swap price. So I say, OK let's say that battery right there is new, and I will pay the new price for it. He says OK and proceeds to write it up, which for more reasons unclear, took like 5 minutes and involved 3 different machines in different places at the counter. I am plagued by idiots... or maybe I am an idiot and just do not fit into the world well. --R __**_ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/**archive/http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/**mailman/listinfo/mercedes_**okiebenz.comhttp://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Speaking of batteries.....and idiots.
On Thu, 30 May 2013 10:42:07 -0400 Michael Canfield slozuk...@gmail.com wrote: Went to get non-ethanol gas for the lawn equipment yesterday. Got $25 worth and Toni handed the attendant $55. He gave her $25 back and walked off. She told him he owed her another $5. He tried to argue that $25 was the correct change, then got pissed off, went inside and got $5 and walked out and gave it to her. As he walked off he says I can't afford to keep doing this you know to Toni. The owner 2 doors up the road was not pleased with the news when I stopped to chat with him. You would think simple math would be easy for a cashier. Indeed. But in what form did Toni hand the cashier $55? Two twenties, a ten and a five? If so, why not give him the $25? Craig ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Speaking of batteries.....and idiots.
Went to get non-ethanol gas for the lawn equipment yesterday. Got $25 worth and Toni handed the attendant $55. He gave her $25 back and walked off. She told him he owed her another $5. He tried to argue that $25 was the correct change, Indeed. But in what form did Toni hand the cashier $55? Two twenties, a ten and a five? If so, why not give him the $25? I was wondering the same thing myself. Rick ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Speaking of batteries.....and idiots.
It was Toni's fault for adding the fiver to the fifty attempting to make things easier. The extra processing involved clearly overloaded the simple circuits in the attendant's CPU. Greg -Original Message- From: Mercedes [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of Michael Canfield Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2013 7:42 AM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] Speaking of batteries.and idiots. Went to get non-ethanol gas for the lawn equipment yesterday. Got $25 worth and Toni handed the attendant $55. He gave her $25 back and walked off. She told him he owed her another $5. He tried to argue that $25 was the correct change, then got pissed off, went inside and got $5 and walked out and gave it to her. As he walked off he says I can't afford to keep doing this you know to Toni. The owner 2 doors up the road was not pleased with the news when I stopped to chat with him. You would think simple math would be easy for a cashier. Mike On May 30, 2013 10:18 AM, Rich Thomas richthomas79td...@constructivity.net wrote: I took the old battery out of the boy's (to be the girl's) SD and took it to Interstate to swap it, as it was getting a bit weak and not holding a charge. It was an 85 and turned out to be from June 2007 (71 months). So I ask the guy there if that meant I got some credit on a new one. He goes off to check some mysterious book and a couple minutes later comes back and says a swap with the credit will be $158.something but a new one will be $154.something. I took a few seconds to process that, and asked him why with a credit will be more than buying it outright, and he proceeds to explain to me that the credit price is more than the new price because when that battery was new it was more than the new one, and the credit on it made it more than a new one now. Huh, WTF??? So I asked him to explain that again, and he goes through the same thing, but this time less comprehensible. He apparently, perfectly understood the rationale for this apparent contradiction but was not able to explain it to such a simpleton as me. So the battery is sitting there on the counter, he had gone to get it when I said I needed a swap, so I asked him if that same battery, that one right there, had 2 different prices depending on whether I had one to swap for it, then he tells me that he is giving me $10 off the new price so that is why it is less than the swap price. So I say, OK let's say that battery right there is new, and I will pay the new price for it. He says OK and proceeds to write it up, which for more reasons unclear, took like 5 minutes and involved 3 different machines in different places at the counter. I am plagued by idiots... or maybe I am an idiot and just do not fit into the world well. --R __**_ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/**archive/http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/**mailman/listinfo/mercedes_**okiebenz.comht tp://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Speaking of batteries.....and idiots.
I quit doing the add on thing a while back, as it only seems to confuse those who are mathematically challenged. Dan Sent from my iPad On May 30, 2013, at 12:41 PM, Greg Fiorentino gf...@dslnorthwest.net wrote: It was Toni's fault for adding the fiver to the fifty attempting to make things easier. The extra processing involved clearly overloaded the simple circuits in the attendant's CPU. Greg -Original Message- From: Mercedes [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of Michael Canfield Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2013 7:42 AM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] Speaking of batteries.and idiots. Went to get non-ethanol gas for the lawn equipment yesterday. Got $25 worth and Toni handed the attendant $55. He gave her $25 back and walked off. She told him he owed her another $5. He tried to argue that $25 was the correct change, then got pissed off, went inside and got $5 and walked out and gave it to her. As he walked off he says I can't afford to keep doing this you know to Toni. The owner 2 doors up the road was not pleased with the news when I stopped to chat with him. You would think simple math would be easy for a cashier. Mike On May 30, 2013 10:18 AM, Rich Thomas richthomas79td...@constructivity.net wrote: I took the old battery out of the boy's (to be the girl's) SD and took it to Interstate to swap it, as it was getting a bit weak and not holding a charge. It was an 85 and turned out to be from June 2007 (71 months). So I ask the guy there if that meant I got some credit on a new one. He goes off to check some mysterious book and a couple minutes later comes back and says a swap with the credit will be $158.something but a new one will be $154.something. I took a few seconds to process that, and asked him why with a credit will be more than buying it outright, and he proceeds to explain to me that the credit price is more than the new price because when that battery was new it was more than the new one, and the credit on it made it more than a new one now. Huh, WTF??? So I asked him to explain that again, and he goes through the same thing, but this time less comprehensible. He apparently, perfectly understood the rationale for this apparent contradiction but was not able to explain it to such a simpleton as me. So the battery is sitting there on the counter, he had gone to get it when I said I needed a swap, so I asked him if that same battery, that one right there, had 2 different prices depending on whether I had one to swap for it, then he tells me that he is giving me $10 off the new price so that is why it is less than the swap price. So I say, OK let's say that battery right there is new, and I will pay the new price for it. He says OK and proceeds to write it up, which for more reasons unclear, took like 5 minutes and involved 3 different machines in different places at the counter. I am plagued by idiots... or maybe I am an idiot and just do not fit into the world well. --R __**_ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/**archive/http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/**mailman/listinfo/mercedes_**okiebenz.comht tp://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Speaking of batteries.....and idiots.
A fifty and five ones...seems like it would have been easier for him. Mike On May 30, 2013 11:05 AM, Craig diese...@pisquared.net wrote: On Thu, 30 May 2013 10:42:07 -0400 Michael Canfield slozuk...@gmail.com wrote: Went to get non-ethanol gas for the lawn equipment yesterday. Got $25 worth and Toni handed the attendant $55. He gave her $25 back and walked off. She told him he owed her another $5. He tried to argue that $25 was the correct change, then got pissed off, went inside and got $5 and walked out and gave it to her. As he walked off he says I can't afford to keep doing this you know to Toni. The owner 2 doors up the road was not pleased with the news when I stopped to chat with him. You would think simple math would be easy for a cashier. Indeed. But in what form did Toni hand the cashier $55? Two twenties, a ten and a five? If so, why not give him the $25? Craig ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Speaking of batteries.....and idiots.
So her power supply clearly blew away his cpu? I will tell her to turn that down a touch when dealing with fools. Mike On May 30, 2013 12:41 PM, Greg Fiorentino gf...@dslnorthwest.net wrote: It was Toni's fault for adding the fiver to the fifty attempting to make things easier. The extra processing involved clearly overloaded the simple circuits in the attendant's CPU. Greg -Original Message- From: Mercedes [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of Michael Canfield Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2013 7:42 AM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] Speaking of batteries.and idiots. Went to get non-ethanol gas for the lawn equipment yesterday. Got $25 worth and Toni handed the attendant $55. He gave her $25 back and walked off. She told him he owed her another $5. He tried to argue that $25 was the correct change, then got pissed off, went inside and got $5 and walked out and gave it to her. As he walked off he says I can't afford to keep doing this you know to Toni. The owner 2 doors up the road was not pleased with the news when I stopped to chat with him. You would think simple math would be easy for a cashier. Mike On May 30, 2013 10:18 AM, Rich Thomas richthomas79td...@constructivity.net wrote: I took the old battery out of the boy's (to be the girl's) SD and took it to Interstate to swap it, as it was getting a bit weak and not holding a charge. It was an 85 and turned out to be from June 2007 (71 months). So I ask the guy there if that meant I got some credit on a new one. He goes off to check some mysterious book and a couple minutes later comes back and says a swap with the credit will be $158.something but a new one will be $154.something. I took a few seconds to process that, and asked him why with a credit will be more than buying it outright, and he proceeds to explain to me that the credit price is more than the new price because when that battery was new it was more than the new one, and the credit on it made it more than a new one now. Huh, WTF??? So I asked him to explain that again, and he goes through the same thing, but this time less comprehensible. He apparently, perfectly understood the rationale for this apparent contradiction but was not able to explain it to such a simpleton as me. So the battery is sitting there on the counter, he had gone to get it when I said I needed a swap, so I asked him if that same battery, that one right there, had 2 different prices depending on whether I had one to swap for it, then he tells me that he is giving me $10 off the new price so that is why it is less than the swap price. So I say, OK let's say that battery right there is new, and I will pay the new price for it. He says OK and proceeds to write it up, which for more reasons unclear, took like 5 minutes and involved 3 different machines in different places at the counter. I am plagued by idiots... or maybe I am an idiot and just do not fit into the world well. --R __**_ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/**archive/http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/**mailman/listinfo/mercedes_**okiebenz.comht tp://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Speaking of batteries.....and idiots.
So, she was expecting a 20 and a 10 or 3 10's as change. Wilton - Original Message - From: Michael Canfield slozuk...@gmail.com To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2013 2:09 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] Speaking of batteries.and idiots. A fifty and five ones...seems like it would have been easier for him. Mike On May 30, 2013 11:05 AM, Craig diese...@pisquared.net wrote: On Thu, 30 May 2013 10:42:07 -0400 Michael Canfield slozuk...@gmail.com wrote: Went to get non-ethanol gas for the lawn equipment yesterday. Got $25 worth and Toni handed the attendant $55. He gave her $25 back and walked off. She told him he owed her another $5. He tried to argue that $25 was the correct change, then got pissed off, went inside and got $5 and walked out and gave it to her. As he walked off he says I can't afford to keep doing this you know to Toni. The owner 2 doors up the road was not pleased with the news when I stopped to chat with him. You would think simple math would be easy for a cashier. Indeed. But in what form did Toni hand the cashier $55? Two twenties, a ten and a five? If so, why not give him the $25? Craig ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Speaking of batteries.....and idiots.
On Thu, 30 May 2013 14:09:22 -0400 Michael Canfield slozuk...@gmail.com wrote: A fifty and five ones...seems like it would have been easier for him. Aha! Now I understand! That makes complete sense. I rarely carry a fifty around. Craig Mike On May 30, 2013 11:05 AM, Craig diese...@pisquared.net wrote: On Thu, 30 May 2013 10:42:07 -0400 Michael Canfield slozuk...@gmail.com wrote: Went to get non-ethanol gas for the lawn equipment yesterday. Got $25 worth and Toni handed the attendant $55. He gave her $25 back and walked off. She told him he owed her another $5. He tried to argue that $25 was the correct change, then got pissed off, went inside and got $5 and walked out and gave it to her. As he walked off he says I can't afford to keep doing this you know to Toni. The owner 2 doors up the road was not pleased with the news when I stopped to chat with him. You would think simple math would be easy for a cashier. Indeed. But in what form did Toni hand the cashier $55? Two twenties, a ten and a five? If so, why not give him the $25? Craig ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com Craig -- Present:'95 E320Sebastian 117 kmi '94 E420Oskar 127 kmi (awaiting parting out) '82 240D/3.0Bluebell 267 kmi (leaking diesel from somewhere in the engine compartment) Past: '86 190E/2.3 '72 220/8 '64 190Dc Emma '72 220D/8 Herman 186 kmi ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
