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I went to pick up some material this morning including some colonial door stop. I had two pieces at 7’. They scanned the sticker and the computer prompted them to inter a length. The pieces where measured by the cashier and the length were 7’ ¾”. She entered a 7 for the feet and then a .75 for the inches. It would not accept this. She proceeded to inter it as a fraction.
Eventually there where 4 workers standing around the cash register talking about this as though I had nowhere to be. I couldn’t take another second of the madness and finally said “not to be rude but I need to get out of here, enter a whole number” They entered a 0 for the inch and we were on to the second piece.
They scanned the sticker and because they rounded down on the first piece they wanted to round up for the second one. Somehow for them, rounding up meant that the 7’ ¾” piece would get entered as 8’. I didn’t care about the few cents that this would have cost me but I couldn’t let it happen. A half an hour later and after giving some free math tutoring I was on my way.
Eventually there where 4 workers standing around the cash register talking about this as though I had nowhere to be. I couldn’t take another second of the madness and finally said “not to be rude but I need to get out of here, enter a whole number” They entered a 0 for the inch and we were on to the second piece.
They scanned the sticker and because they rounded down on the first piece they wanted to round up for the second one. Somehow for them, rounding up meant that the 7’ ¾” piece would get entered as 8’. I didn’t care about the few cents that this would have cost me but I couldn’t let it happen. A half an hour later and after giving some free math tutoring I was on my way.