>>>>>Confuse shopkeepers by buying a sheet of wrapping paper and asking
>>>>>them to wrap it.
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>>>>That somewow reminds me of a friend who confused the waitress at a restaurant, asking for an orange-taste Coca Cola. Pressumably he wanted Fanta.
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>>>Many years ago, a friend was visiting from New York, and we went to a diner type restaurant. He asked for a chocolate coke. The waitress looked at him like he was from another planet. She said, "Chocolate coke? What's a chocolate coke?". He had to explain that it was just like a cherry coke but with chocolate syrup instead of cherry syrup. She brought it, but she gave him a look that said she still thought he was crazy. For the record, I agreed with her.
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>>MANY years ago I was with a friend in caravan holidaying camp, in the cafe. There was advertised a coke floate, at 2s 4d (2 shillings and four-pence - equiv. to c. 12p). I asked the girl at the counter how much each was individually (the ice cream and a bottle of Coke) and that came to 1s 9d (= 8.5p), so I bought the makings individually and made my own.
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>>A bit later this guy comes in, sees what I'm supping and orders one for himself. The girl gives him the makings and charges him 2s 4d. Go figure!
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>I buy a fair amount of cat food (no, Terry, it's for my cats, sigh). In every store I've been in, I've noticed that the canned food (170 gm size) sells individually for less than if you buy the same brand packaged in a case of 12. Very strange. For instance, I was in PetSmart, and the individual cans were 47 cents, A case of 12 was $5.87. Nobody seems to know why, but I suspect it's because generally people expect it to be the other way around, so they buy the cases without really paying attention.

Yeah, I've noticed that phenomenon before: esp one time it was a jar of instant coffee, twice the capac. of the std./ but costing more than X2. Now, once you let the air in instant coffee, esp. if 0.5 empty or less, it very soon turns into ... well gravy granules, so why would anyone buy this, when they could open a fresh std. jar?