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27 and 1/2 and 5/8

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I work for Lowe's Home Improvement as a customer service associate. We get all kinds of stupid people and I knew that going into the job. A lot of people come from inside Philadelphia to our store, even though it's such a far trip. This one guy comes in with his daughter complaining that a saleswoman miscut his window blinds. I told him that I'd cut his blinds for him to avoid any trouble. He told me that his blinds had been cut to 28 inches or more and he wanted them cut down. He handed me a slip of paper with the measurements on it , which read "27 1/2 and 5/8 inches". I assumed he meant he wanted 5/8 inch blinds cut to 27 and 1/2 inches. I cut them and came back to the desk where the man measured them and told me they were way off. I cut them again to 27 and 1/2 inches and even measured them myself before returning to the desk. He asked for a manager. Before I go any further into this ridiculous story, let me mention that carpenter's tape measures have eighths and quarters written out in addition to the half marks, so each tape reads 1/8 then 1/4 then 3/8 and so on. When my manager came up I explained the situation and he asked the man exactly what he wanted cut. Then his daughter starts trying to explain to us what 27 1/2 means. Then the man cuts her off, takes my manager's tape measure and points to 27 1/2, then counts over to 27 5/8 and says "twenty-seven and one half... and FIVE EIGHTHS!" He thought we were stupid but this mean clearly doesn't know how to read a tape measure. He doesn't even understand how fractions work, thinking that 27 and 5/8 was read 27 and 1/2 and 5/8! How this guy made it as a carpenter amazes me. So many houses are probably collapsing as we speak.

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