Four Dollar Muffins
Through a quirk in the current breakfast policy at work, coffee and tea are free, but Breakfast, which is supposed to include coffee or tea plus a "single breakfast item" (bagel, muffin, yogurt) is $4. The way I see it, since they're not charging for coffee or tea anyway, that means those are a four dollar muffins.
Understandably, I often choose to spare the extra three dollars and spend a dollar or so on one of the Nutrigrain bars in the snack machine. They're probably better for me than a giant muffin anyway.
Last Friday, I decided a Special K bar looked pretty tasty, so, seeing the "E3 $1.00" marking under the bar, I inserted a dollar coin, and touched E3 on the keypad.
"PRODUCT IS $1.25" the machine's blue LED readout responded.
"Ah, it must be mismarked. No worries," I thought. So I put in an extra quarter, and received . . . a Raisin Bran bar instead. Not only were the prices wrong, but the labels were misaligned with the products. Great.
Feeling that complaining about the difference between a Special K bar and a Raisin Bran bar would sound pretty stupid to someone, I resolved to accept my replacement breakfast, and use my newfound knowledge about the quirks of the machine to make a wiser decision next time around.
Cut scene to this morning.
I inserted a dollar coin (just in case the $1.00 label was still correct for the Special K bar).
I pushed E4 rather than E3 this time.
The machine responded.
"PRODUCT IS $12.55"
Perhaps I'll stick to the four dollar muffins after all.
Understandably, I often choose to spare the extra three dollars and spend a dollar or so on one of the Nutrigrain bars in the snack machine. They're probably better for me than a giant muffin anyway.
Last Friday, I decided a Special K bar looked pretty tasty, so, seeing the "E3 $1.00" marking under the bar, I inserted a dollar coin, and touched E3 on the keypad.
"PRODUCT IS $1.25" the machine's blue LED readout responded.
"Ah, it must be mismarked. No worries," I thought. So I put in an extra quarter, and received . . . a Raisin Bran bar instead. Not only were the prices wrong, but the labels were misaligned with the products. Great.
Feeling that complaining about the difference between a Special K bar and a Raisin Bran bar would sound pretty stupid to someone, I resolved to accept my replacement breakfast, and use my newfound knowledge about the quirks of the machine to make a wiser decision next time around.
Cut scene to this morning.
I inserted a dollar coin (just in case the $1.00 label was still correct for the Special K bar).
I pushed E4 rather than E3 this time.
The machine responded.
"PRODUCT IS $12.55"
Perhaps I'll stick to the four dollar muffins after all.