Makes A Lot Of Cents

(When my mom was a child, she received an allowance of fifty cents a week. One day, her father got a little curious.)

Grandpa: “So, what do you do with this money, anyway?”

Mom: “There’s a bookstore downtown that sells books for fifty cents. The bus is twenty-five cents each way, which makes a dollar total. So every other week, when I have a dollar, I head over there and buy a new book.”

Grandpa: “…”

(From then on, she received a dollar a week.)