When a scrolling, McDonald’s marquee in southern Indiana advertises pies for .50¢, I assume someone simply didn’t know any better. No offense, dear McD’s employees, but you don’t have a reputation for intelligence anyway.
But when the local, Louisville Free Public Library marks all its videos with stickers warning the world of a .25¢ per day late fee, I know the situation is more serious. The city library system, that bastion of personal education, should know better.
See, intelligent reader that you are, you caught that “.25¢” actually says, “point two-five cents,” not, “twenty-five cents.” But the library didn’t?
Seriously?
Am I to assume I’m paying a fraction of a cent for each day I keep the video past its due date? Or am I to assume the folks at the library are simply unintelligent?
Weighing the implications of each, I’ll assume the first.
The sad truth is, the library has had those stickers on there for at least eighteen years!
Wow, eighteen years. How did you find that out?
-Marshall