67? oh... I thought you said 16

Rob, in light of your recent rant...

I'm at the store, lady in front of me rings up her 8 lbs. of Jelly Bellies (I kid you not - all the same flavor - pink grapefruit) and she can't stop talking about how delicious they are, and how we should all try them. The kid behind the register says "That will be $56.67" so she digs through her laundry bag of a purse and shells out three twenties. She then digs around for her change purse. She has half of her body inside the bag looking for it. When she finally comes out, hair dishevelled, red cheeked, she proudly counts out sixteen cents and triumphantly hands it to the kid. he looks at his hand, then looks at her, then back at his hand...

"uh [pause] yeah... $56.67"

almost offended, the lady starts digging around in her change purse again, can't come up with the extra fifty one cents, and in disgust, takes her sixteen cents back and reluctantly takes the change from the kid. All the while, she is muttering on and on about how sure she was that she had the change. She was a talker. And the more she looked for that change, the more she talked.

I was 8 feet away from the kid and I heard the correct amount. She is thirty inches across the counter and she missed it.