So I’m in Home Base the other day, looking for some various things. Well, the only thing they had that I needed was a package of 8mm nuts. Though I thought that going through the line to buy like $.20 worth of stuff was silly, I did it anyway. When I get to the register, the cashier rings it up, the subtotal comes to 1 cent. She said those nuts are on clearance. Well, tax on 1 cent is something like .07 cents, so the total was still 1 cent. Now, of course I had NO change of any sort, and she would not just let me have the item for free, so I had to pay with a $1 bill, meaning I now have 99 cents change. Seeing that I gave the cashier 100 times the cost of the purchase, I figure this has to be one of the largest ratios ever.
I thought it kind of silly that she wouldn’t just give me the item, since I took up way more than 1 cent of a)her time, b) receipt paper, and c) wear and tear on the register. Yet another reason why they should do away with pennies!
I remember stopping at a gas station on my way home from school everyday and spending a penny on a piece of those little pink pieces of bubble gum that were shaped like stars. Personally though, I think that we should drop the cost of living and the wages to match so they were more like they were for our fathers and forefathers. I wouldn’t mind making less if I was spending less. Part of the problem, IMHO, lies with sports salaries. It’s a game, it should be handled like one. I play on the company softball league, but I still go to work everyday to make my wage. It should be the same for them. That way too, people could go see the games after work instead of having to take time off to go to a day game (I’m speaking with baseball in mind, I know most other sports are played either at night or on weekends).
Didn’t buy it myself, but at the paintball store I used to manage, I had to break a $100 bill for a 50 cent o-ring. That’s a pretty damn good ratio right there
