Due to some airline delays, I was trying to schedule a new flight. I ended up showing a boarding pass to an attendant at the booth and asking something along th

Due to some airline delays, I was trying to schedule a new flight. I ended up showing a boarding pass to an attendant at the booth and asking something along the lines of "I'd like to make this connection". The ticket said departure "22.17". She asked me "What's that in `real` time?". Two more from the garden center: I was looking for a pump for an ornamental pond, and the pumps were advertised by the amount of gallons of water they displaced per hour. I didn't know the conversion between ft3 and gallons and I didn't have my phone so I couldn't look it up. I told one of the attendants my pond was about 60 cube feet, and asked if she could help me look up how much gallons that was. She said; "I don't do numbers like that. The only numbers I know how to count is money wink". Weird. I tried to explain; all I need is the conversion factor. To no avail. I just ended up buying the biggest one. My neighbors complimented me on how soothing that burbling water is when they go to bed. Passive aggressive jerks :) I wanted some dirt delivered for a raised flower bed. I needed about 30 cube feet. The voice on the phone told me they only deliver by the scoop (from that big shovel on their bulldozer). Fair enough, but I asked if he had more or less an idea how large such a scoop was, in some unit I could understand, since I didn't want to end up with too much dirt. He was pretty curt in his response; "We're not going to start do that, all those units and measurements, we only do scoops". Wait what, like, how do landscape architects do this? Are scoops a thing? I asked people if it was unreasonable to expect more in each situation. Most of them were along the lines; "yes, you're being obnoxious, just get the damn scoops".