Similar story I can't help share. I went into Home Depot and asked for a piece of two by four to be cut to 38 7/8" length. The guy doing the cutting had to co

Similar story I can't help share. I went into Home Depot and asked for a piece of two by four to be cut to 38 7/8" length. The guy doing the cutting had to come and ask me what exactly 7/8ths of an inch looked like on a tape measure. It's the really small tick marks, right? I told him the really small ones are 16ths, and pointed to where the tape needed to go for 38 7/8". You can bet I measured that piece of wood after he'd cut it.