Micro Brains Can Give You Mega Headaches
Grocery Store | Working
| November 15, 2012
(I approach the seafood section at my local grocery store, where a young employee is working.)
Me: “I’ll take 500g of the tilapia.”
(The employee looks at the fish, and then at me.)
Employee: “You want how much?”
Me: “500g.”
(The employee looks at the fish and then at the scale, which reads ‘0.000kg’.)
Employee: “I don’t think I can do that. It only has kilograms…”
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