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An Abbott and Costello moment at a Wal-Mart where I was buying a 377-type of watch battery for my mom:

“Hi, I need a three seventy-seven watch battery.”
“Okay, that’s three seventy-seven.”
“Right. Three seventy-seven.”
“Three seventy-seven.”

By then I had realized that she meant that the 377 battery coincidentally cost $3.77, although the clerk seemed kind of oblivious to that and to her ambiguous wording. Or maybe she just got a kick out of confusing customers.