Went went down to our local market bright and early this morning and bought a head of Calabrese at one of the veg stalls. The price seemed to have risen recently at £1.20 a pound, but my wife handed a smallish head to the stall-holder. "That's £1.27", she said. My wife asked - "was that over a lb?"
The (grumpy) smallholder put it on the scales again and said "it weighs a pound and 3/4 of an ounce". My wife remarked that it seemed a bit odd, but didn't question the validity of the scales.
When we arrived home, we checked the Calabrese on our electronic kitchen scales and it weighed in at 10.5oz. The marketeer's scales appeared to be over-reading by approaching 40%.
What would you do?
a) Vow never to use that stall again and forget about it.
b) Go down next week and helpfully inform the smallholder that their scales might not be working correctly.
c) Take you own scales down and ask if the stall-holder would be good enough to check them for you. [if you see what I mean]
d) Get them checked out by 'weights and measures' (if such an organisation still exists).
e) Report them to the local rag
f) Throw a Molotov cocktail at the stall
g) Something else
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