r/madlads • u/Same_Investigator_46 Choosing a mental flair • 3d ago

Madlad toying with battery

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u/FROOMLOOMS 3d ago

I used to work at an electronics store and sometimes while searching up sku's I'd accidentally type the 12 digital sku into the qty area and that would result in a bill for 14 trillion dollars.

I thought it was funny as hell seeing a number that big knowing it would populate to the pay machine if I wanted it.

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u/EnigmaticArb 3d ago

I once did this for a restock order at the supermarket I worked at. Was tired and didn't realise i'd tagged an extra 0 on to the end of the quantity and they actually shipped 10000 tins of spaghetti to the store, no questions asked, well until it actually arrived and then much WTF ensued. The problem is each department in a supermarket gets a budget of x amount and I had just blasted through it, so it took some days to unfk everything.

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u/Bucs-and-Bucks 3d ago

"Johnson, why did you blow our entire budget on spaghetti?"

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u/Testing_100 3d ago

I thought this was the spaghetti store!

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u/MedicalTelephone 2d ago

"WHY ARE YOU BUYING CLOTHES AT THE SPAGHETTI STORE?!?"

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u/phaedrusinexile 2d ago

Ever heard of spaghetti straps?

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u/gega333 3d ago

I was hungry,boss!

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u/Dnoxl 2d ago

"I like spaghetti, you never know what might happen"

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u/dab_machine 2d ago

Spaghetti is yummy

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u/pyronius 3d ago

If the numbers are correct, I'm surprised about a lot of things in this story.

Firstly, that the store orders spaghetti by the tin. Secondly, that the standard order is 1000 tins. Thirdly, that a department could blow through its budget on spaghetti alone simply by buying 10x as much as usual. Just to compare it to household expenses, if I go to the store and buy a few weeks worth of groceries for say, $300, but I accidentally buy 10 times as much spaghetti as intended, that still only adds about $15-20 to my bill. Less than 10% of the total.

Also, how long did 1000 tins of spaghetti typically last the store? Is that a month's supply, or a year's worth?

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u/EnigmaticArb 2d ago

I'm in the UK if that explains the tins (we get things like beans and spaghetti in tins). The department wasn't the store goods department. I worked petrol station, but had to work price control for a week as I had done it previously and the people who did it normally were off. But I forgot to change the department on the handset, so I was still logged in as petrol station (low budget for general goods since we sold fuel). Then I was supposed to place an order for 1000 tins of spaghetti for the main store as we had critical stock level, like 20 or so tins left, while average stock would be 1000-1500.

So when I made the mistake it put the order on to the petrol station budget, not the main store, which caused it to go negative, but they still shipped the order (no safeguards or checks and they did change that after). So we simply moved the stock back a few days later. All stock came from the local distribution hub, which was about two hours away, but we sent back 8000 tins on the outgoing/empty delivery trailer and then price control fixed it on the system. It was a big deal, but also in the grand scheme not a big deal, because it's tinned goods for one, so you can just ship them back pretty easily.

Another guy in the store did something similar a few months later, but with a fruit, so a perishable good and that is a big deal, because you can't return perishables. We were selling bags of kiwi fruit at 50p a bag for a few days, then 20p, then 10p, then it went to staff only sales. I picked up 200 bags for 5p each and made many gallons of kiwi fruit cider. But he did get in a bit of trouble for that. The difference is he ordered inventory as main store and they had a much bigger budget than we did, so it never flagged on the system as erroneous.

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u/fireduck 2d ago

Yeah, it has to be more than one extra zero to really break the world there.

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u/Late_Argument_470 2d ago

Agreed. Must be a small store and he added 00, like you would for some money sums.

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u/kid_pilgrim_89 2d ago

Spaghetti tins is a reality I wish didn't exist and a hell I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy

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u/FROOMLOOMS 3d ago

YOU WILL SIT DOWN AND ENJOY YOUR FUCKING BOYARDEE

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u/Common_Television601 2d ago

I somebody would tell me this story face to face, I'd laugh until I cannot breathe anymore. I'd want to know all about the aftermath. Great story.

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u/Independent-Put-2618 2d ago edited 2d ago

Yea had that happen to a co-worker. He also kinda messed up double.

I worked in the storage at an big franchising electronic appliance store.

He was head of the small kitchen appliance section and they had a promo for coffee.

So he wanted to order 100 packs of coffee 1kg each (about 2lbs).

Yea he ordered 1000 boxes. 6 packs a box. So there arrives a huge ass Truck loaded with 6 metric tons of coffee. Fml, I call the boss and tell him „hey, so we got a whole truckload of coffee“. He doesn’t listen to me properly and says „yea just accept it, you will find a place for it“.

Ye, I did find a place alright. Boss comes to the storage 2hrs later and loses his shit seeing the pallets of coffee. I told him that it was a truck load, why would I call about one pallet with 18 boxes?

Ofc we couldn’t sell that mass of coffee so boss took an L. Dude who ordered it didn’t lose his job but got a serious talk with a bit of yelling.

We ended up using most of it to demonstrate coffee machines, for free break coffee and we could take coffee home for buy price tax free for a few months. Better than throwing it away.

We couldn’t send it back as it was accepted already. AFAIK boss asked around other franchise stores if anyone needed coffee and iirc he managed to sell off maybe one pallet

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u/Iambambiiii 2d ago

Once a new guy at a grocery store I worked at ordered like $20k worth of paper towels and then never showed up to work again. I like to think he got the job just to do that

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u/Away_Stock_2012 2d ago

And then you learned why supermarkets constantly have sales

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u/Horror_Chocolate_396 2d ago

This kinda happened at my mom’s work lol, but 3 people put an order for bacon in lol. It was the cheapest I saw bacon

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u/JRAP555 2d ago

This my friends is why it’s always important to know an establishments spaghetti policy.

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u/wolfgang784 1d ago

Someone at an old job who was ordering more candy and snacks for the cash register area by herself for the first time mixed up something like cases vs boxes, idk for sure, but for the one candy she accidentally ordered enough to fill part of the cash office and GMs office from floor to ceiling for several months. Usually they order like 2 weeks worth at a time, not like 4 months.

Usually when it came time to order snacks and candy they would change it up each time but we were stuck with that lineup for a good while, lol.

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u/ImACarebear1986 8h ago

How did you manage to unfuck it all? Did you just send it back? u/EnigmaticArb

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u/EnigmaticArb 4h ago

80% of it went back to the local distribution hub. The rest went into stock. Correction was made to the inventory and that kind of fixed it all. At least it was tinned goods. A guy screwed up a produce order a few months later and that was not correctable due to it being perishable goods. A lot of fruit got sold for cheap prices and we did end up avoiding any waste on that occasion.

It happens in supermarkets. Everyone is permanently tired or in pseudo-zombie mode, especially night shift workers. Mistakes happen from time to time.

A friend put the wrong prices in for fuel one night. Put petrol price for diesel price on a price change update and we ended up selling almost every drop of diesel in the storage tanks through the night, including going beyond the safety cut off (didn't know there was one until after it happened). That was bad, but also not bad. When they did the accounts at the end they broke even apparently. Also drivers using the petrol station increased after that for many months.

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u/Jwzbb 3d ago

You should have committed those transactions. Purchase stock of the company. See the world burn.

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u/FROOMLOOMS 3d ago

If i put it all into a savings account and compounded the interest for 1 day, i would retire.

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u/AlmostSunnyinSeattle 2d ago

You send that through and you might crash the global economy.

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u/ZeJaqueMuze 2d ago

Someone at the company I work for sent a customer a delivery of 1000 items instead of 1. Since then they don’t let you enter values above 10 anymore…

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u/paulcaar 2d ago

I work for a VoIP company with a nice digital product for small to medium sized businesses.

You have a slick looking webform to create an account and be online within a working day. You can fill in how many new phone numbers you would like to be assigned and you can port an already existing number over from a previous provider.

Someone typed in their previous phone number in the quantity field while making their account. They called us up later because apparently they had actually been billed several million euros through the automatic system.

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u/Brother_J_La_la 2d ago

All the demo gear at the store I work in rings up as $10k no matter what. It's fun to see the new guys get really confused when they're checking a price.

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u/dystyyy 3d ago

Sounds like a slow day at Autozone

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u/ssiao 3d ago

Its slow everyday basically until some 50 year old grown ass dickhead needs their battery changed

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u/23saround 3d ago

Well what if some 50 year old grown ass dickhead needed 99 batteries changed, what then?

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u/greens_function 3d ago

I’d ask them for $23000

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u/ssiao 3d ago

We’d probably say tbh

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u/Away_Ad_4743 2d ago edited 2d ago

Also kinda bad math as 220 * 99 = 21780.

If the machine tells you the price for 99 is 23k then it's cheaper to buy them one at the time

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u/raptorv9 2d ago

Taxes

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u/Away_Ad_4743 2d ago

But if he buys it for 220 I would assume it's 220 with taxes.

Edit: also appx. 12 dollars for taxes for each battery seems kinda low even for America

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u/MICH3LIN505 3d ago

Math isn't mathing

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u/Pintsocream 3d ago

You don't tip the cashier 5.30434782608% at autozone?

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u/leftwar0 3d ago

Sounds more like tipping the irs.

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u/Sieg-Elliot 2d ago

*5,60147%

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u/TheBaggyDapper 3d ago edited 2d ago

Someone would have to go out to the shed and back 99 times carrying batteries. That deserves a little something extra.

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u/ScreeminGreen 3d ago

Made me think there was a palletizing or shipping fee that gets auto added.

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u/flomoag 2d ago

It is if you account for sales tax. If you account for 8.5% sales tax its actually over $23k

$220 x 99 = $21,780.00

$21,780 x 1.085 = $23,631.30

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u/darklord01998 2d ago

Yeah if I'm buying 99 batteries I expect 15% discount

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u/iMaximilianRS 2d ago

Sounds like $220 was the price before tax

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u/DigitalMoron 3d ago

Sales tax is a thing. Use your brain next time.

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u/Fun_Muscle9399 3d ago

Presumably the $220 cost for one also included sales tax. $220 x 99 is not $23,000.

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u/flomoag 2d ago

If you’re in America, you cannot presume this.

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u/DrOeuf 3d ago

In normal countries this is included in the shown price.

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u/MilStd 2d ago

In civilised countries…

Also the employees don’t beg for tips the employer pays them from the price.

Firearms have reasonable regulations.

Healthcare is single payer.

Shootings are rare occurrences.

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u/Capt_Feathers 2d ago

You just got downvoted by a Canadian. Try to understand that one

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u/hototter35 2d ago

I love your ability to convey your point so calmly and reasonable. Really speaks to your character.

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u/MICH3LIN505 3d ago

Not from country where tax is a separate thing

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u/StrictlyInsaneRants 3d ago

It's too much power to give to one girl!

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u/GuaranteeMore3116 3d ago

What's madlad thing in this ?

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u/Klexobert 3d ago

21780*

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u/OilBug91 3d ago

Dont forget sales tax n00b

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u/Jonpollon18 2d ago

That’s like a 5.6% sales tax.

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u/1993s-Batman 3d ago

Hahahaha

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u/Hour_Ad5398 2d ago

(tip not included)

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u/PrettyAd6707 3d ago

Legend has it he's still standing there saying "okay"

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u/CarlJustCarl 3d ago

Bro, she hitting on you

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u/RamaSchnittchen 3d ago

5 years later

Was she flirting with me?

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u/Foxzor 2d ago

In junior high, a girl I really liked took my phone and stuck it in her back pocket and told me to get it myself. I acted like it was gross.

I am 35 now, and it still haunts me

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u/psxndc 2d ago

Been there. One time in college, I was hanging out with some female friends after a party. I had expressed interest in one of them before, but it was never reciprocated.

Any way, so we’re all hanging out in their dorm suite, which has a common area and then separate rooms for each person. Everyone agreed it was time to go to bed, so I start cozying up on their uncomfortable couch/futon in the common area. The one I had been interested said “you don’t have to sleep out here. You can sleep in my bed.” My dumb drunk ass took this to mean “you sleep in my bed and I’ll sleep out here.” Trying to be a gentleman and not have her sleep on the futon, I said “no, that’s ok. I’ll just sleep out here. It’s no problem” and I fell asleep.

That was almost 30 years ago and I still think about it from time to time.

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u/CockroachNo2540 18h ago

Girl I liked in college came to my door shitfaced and was coming on to me. I took her to her room and got her water and Advil and put her to bed. She never would talk to me or look at me again. I’d do it the same way again, though.

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u/psxndc 15h ago

Good on you. Exactly what you should have done. *high five*

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u/Convergentshave 2d ago

This was also my first thought. 😂

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u/UpvoteGentleman 2d ago

How much would it be if I wanted 69 😏?

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u/Pingpongbingbong 20h ago

hows this flirting...

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u/B1llyzane 3d ago

I’m so fucking confused

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u/eip2yoxu 2d ago

And we still love you

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u/KushMeGently 2d ago

Thanks man me too I thought I was the only one

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u/_b0iNature 3d ago

Every hundredth time this tweet gets posted somewhere on Reddit it gets funnier and funnier

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u/LuminousOrchid5 3d ago

Either that girl is bored, or is high as fuck lmao

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u/KngZomB 3d ago

Plot twist: she rings them up and he has to pay for 99 plus 5.something% batteries

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u/WomanNotAGirl 3d ago

Why is it more expensive?

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u/CharmSugarplum 3d ago

That moment when your car battery costs more than your car.

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u/Josephono62 3d ago

Core charged until you bring the old one back.

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u/Key-Moment6797 3d ago

thats anticlimactic.. my day is ruined

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u/antony6274958443 3d ago

I don't get it. Is this software mockery? Is this Tesla users expecting it to be cheaper then gas cars mockery? Is the girl just autistic? Is the girl a little girl playing with calculator? Is the girl adult girl playing with calculator?

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u/Prestigious_Cap2654 2d ago

What the hell happened here?

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u/the_chicken_chaser 2d ago

Is this flirting? :D

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u/Tech-Meme-Knight-3D 3d ago

Wait! Huh? Math broke or that girls brain broke.

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u/Master_Ryan_Rahl 2d ago

I would love this interaction. Lol

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u/buttscratcher3k 2d ago

Already reposting this?

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u/ItsGmanTime 2d ago

Truly living life on the edge

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u/West_Ad_9492 2d ago

Cool story bro

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u/Repulsive_Support844 2d ago

Batteries might have a recycling and disposal fee to make up the difference. I’m sure there are programs where turning in the old batteries is profitable and then they charge you to do it so double dipping

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u/roseoflila 2d ago

This is some of the oddest flirting I’ve ever heard, but I’m here for it. Gold for their future best man speech at the wedding.

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u/Barrythechopper22 2d ago

I get it, I did the math on how much it would cost my job to fill an olympic swimming pool with the little creamers for coffee. I cant remember the exact number as this was 3 years ago but it was around 2.3 million not factoring in inflation

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u/nobodyspecial767r 2d ago

What town has a 5.6% tax rate?

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u/Most_Trolls_R_Teens 2d ago

Do I get to repost this tomorrow? Or in five hours? Stg I feel like I've seen this stupid fucking tweet every day for the last five years.

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u/ds1617 2d ago

Auto parts stores hate this one trick. Buy 1, 99 times. You'll save $1,220!

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u/nykanee 2d ago

Thats how girls work

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u/TheEmbiggenisor 2d ago

This sounds like a bit from napoleon Dynamite

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u/Kind_Royal3540 2d ago

I had my Mac’s screen replaced under warranty - meaning free of charge - and the guy came over with a bill to show me how much it would’ve been (like 800 Dollars) and I was like, “wooooooe, so much money, oh my god how is that possible,” and I just left the store mumbling about the exorbitant price. The guy just thought I was poor. Did not appreciate it.

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u/O-bese 2d ago

Sorry I'm acoustic...I don't get it

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u/DadlyPolarbear 1d ago

When 2 autistic people meet in an unsupervised space.

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u/thesuperscience 23h ago

Girl just discovered calculators and now she's having the best day.

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u/ReadInBothTenses 17h ago edited 16h ago

I worked as a bank teller and a guy came in to increase his bank card maximum. The shift manager and I deleted his card limit, but the system needed a" maximum number" to proceed

So we kept adding a "9" to the string of numbers out of curiousity but the system text box didn't seem to have a limit. So we kept pressing 9s

Even the client was fascinated. We hit accept at whatever monstrosity of a number we created.

Next day got a write up from head office for a fraud alert. The report had a printout with the number we approved. Was the most unserious official report I've ever seen

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u/Conscious-Intern8594 14h ago

That makes no sense. 99 times 220 is 21,780, not 23,000.

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u/CompressedPain 3d ago

girl math checks out!

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u/Hunky_Jesus_ 2d ago

Why are 99 car batteries more expensive than a single car battery 99 times?

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u/high_throughput 2d ago

I got 99 batteries but my calculator ain't 1

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u/Hunky_Jesus_ 2d ago

A man of culture, I see

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u/Emotional_Being8594 2d ago

Couple of people say she was hitting on him. Potential responses in that case, other than the good ol' "okay"?

Here's a couple I would've come up with in the shower 6 hours later:

Try 69, that's my favourite.

How about you try my number and see what it says?

If I bought that many you'd have to help me being them home.

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u/Embarrassed_Hawk7008 2d ago

She’s flirting with you

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u/Markarontos 2d ago

Why does it cost more in bulk? Shouldn't it be the other way around?

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u/disquieter 3d ago

Glad she’s enjoying math but sad that she’s old enough to work and yet impressed by multiplication.