Basic Math 101

[Moirae]

Uhhh Wow. Apparently some people need to go back to school.

[Banrion]

I've had something similar happen to me before, too.
Sometimes, with uber-cheap medicines, it ends up being cheaper to buy 3 months' worth at the cash price w/o insurance than it is to buy each month w/ insurance copay.

I have the opposite situation. My prescription is 1 dose every 3 mos. But my insurance company is screwed up in the head. If the pharmacy tries to put it through as 3 mos, the insurance rejects it, but if they fill it as a 1 month, the insurance accepts it. Good for me though cause I only pay $15.00 instead of $45.00. Been happening for 4 years now and the insurance has never questioned it.

[AFpheonix]

I've had something similar happen to me before, too.
Sometimes, with uber-cheap medicines, it ends up being cheaper to buy 3 months' worth at the cash price w/o insurance than it is to buy each month w/ insurance copay.
Typically in that situation, I'll go ahead and fill it for 90 or 100 pills (if it's non-controlled and a maintenance med), and put a note on the bag explaining what I did. The vast majority of people understand this and appreciate the fact that we're looking out for the best deals for them.

Not one lady.

She was getting a script for some vitamin/fluoride tabs for her kid, which for a bottle of 100 costs $12.99. She'd have to pay a $10.00 copay each month for 30. I would be saving her over $20.00 plus the time and gas to come in every month. Even writing it out, she couldn't seem to get it, so I let her get 30 at a time for her copay, she walked away happy, Walgreens made a total steal, and I was left with a bit more mush in my cranial cavity.

[Jester]

*sticks out tongue*
Of course, you're right.

My work is done here.

[Imogene]

Um, sorry to interject here, but if the bill was $5.76, and they gave you $10.01 after all was said and done, the change would not be $5 and a quarter, but $4 and a quarter.

Yes, I am a walking calculator.

*sticks out tongue*
Of course, you're right. I'm also not entirely sure on any of the figures I used for the price, the bills handed me, or the change I handed back, besides that there was definitely a quarter involved in the return.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Good Lord. Pretty soon I'll be all out of brain cells. They keep dying on me when I read stuff like this.

[Jester]

Um, sorry to interject here, but if the bill was $5.76, and they gave you $10.01 after all was said and done, the change would not be $5 and a quarter, but $4 and a quarter.

Yes, I am a walking calculator.

[georgiab]

I once had a lady and her daughter who was maybe 10 at the most get loud and extremely rude with me...Why??? because she had a three dollor credit and her total was 12.00 dollors subtract the three dollar credit and what do ya get folks...that's right 9.00. But for some reason neither of them could understand this basic math and wanted to know why was it that total when she had a three dollar credit. Okay I explained this to her about 400 times expecting her to eventually get it even when I took out paper and pen and showed it to her with stick figures..Nope she still didn't get it...her daughter even demanded I give her mama's money back So long story short I said look I am sorry but I can not think of any other way to show you this. She said she understood but with that yeah right I am getting ripped off attitude

[stickycoins]

I have the same thing happen to me at work, but it's with beer instead of chicken. People will come in, grab 3 40oz beers(all the same kind). When they get to the counter, I tell them they could buy a 12 pack for the same amount of money and it's more beer. 3 40s=120 ounces, 12 pack=144 ounces. They just don't get it. They also do the same thing with 22oz, buy 3 which is 66oz and more expensive than a 6 pack which is 72oz. I guess they think bigger bottle=more beer. Nine times out of ten they come back and get more when they wouldn't have had to if they listened to me in the first place.

This must be the reason they all have nothing but change left on Thursdays to buy beer with. But that's another rant.

[saint]

It's also funny when you get people who are suprised when you can make the correct change when they hand you a few pennies/nickels/whatever to make an even amount.
I don't know what is worse:
People thinking I can't count, or the fact that the people have evidently come in contact with enough retail people who can't count, so they automatically think none of us can.

[Imogene]

Had a couple of older ladies come to me for lunch today. They ordered, which came ut to like 5.76 or something. They gave me a ten, I typed in the cash, and the drawer popped open, and I had started moving to make their change, when one of them piped up "I have a penny!"
So I stopped dead in my tracks to wait for her to dig out the penny.
The other woman looks at me and says "That'll mean $5 and a quarter in change."
No...! Really?
I look at her and let her know, "Yes, I was aware of that. I'm actually decent in Math."
"Oh, you just looked like you'd gotten confused."
"Um? Oh, no, I tried to do my 'I can hold' impression, not my 'I'm so fargin' confused' impression. I'm great at math, but terrible at acting, I guess."

[Becks]

I've had experiences like that when I've worked in the hot foods department. By the time I'd get home and log on here, though, my brain still hadn't recovered, so I'd never mentioned it.

[phillippbo]

To paraphrase one of my favorite movies:

"There has been a great disturbance in the Force. Like trillions of brain cells cried out in pain and were abruptly silen.... OUCH! Me brain... um... ug... D'OH!"

[protege]

I think I felt a few braincells die while reading that.

I just had a few million braincells cry out in pain while reading that

[dragonflygrrl]

My brain hurts.