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Monetary precision
Feb. 22nd, 2004 08:17 pmI had this morning roughly SEK 190 on my food account. I shopped once for the gaming session today, wasting away some roughly 90 on that. Then once again on my way home, stocking up for the coming week.
Since I'm about to move away, and split from the fellow I've been sharing account with, I want to empty it out and not bother anymore. And so, at the teller, I totalled 107, added a 10, and got the information that I still (the price tallying at 97.50) didn't have enough.
So off to another terminal I go and check how much I really do have accessible. 97.21. I was off by 30 öre. (roughly 3 cents)
And the worst of it all? When the cashier had removed the plastic bags she had charged me for, I ended up at 94.50. Not at 96.00 as I would have expected (the bags are 1.50 each). Thus - by overcharging me with a bag I wasn't interested in, I ended up overcharging by impossibly little and this prevented me from actually emptying out my account.
Some sort of Murphy's applied to monetary precision.
Since I'm about to move away, and split from the fellow I've been sharing account with, I want to empty it out and not bother anymore. And so, at the teller, I totalled 107, added a 10, and got the information that I still (the price tallying at 97.50) didn't have enough.
So off to another terminal I go and check how much I really do have accessible. 97.21. I was off by 30 öre. (roughly 3 cents)
And the worst of it all? When the cashier had removed the plastic bags she had charged me for, I ended up at 94.50. Not at 96.00 as I would have expected (the bags are 1.50 each). Thus - by overcharging me with a bag I wasn't interested in, I ended up overcharging by impossibly little and this prevented me from actually emptying out my account.
Some sort of Murphy's applied to monetary precision.
