Expensive Wine

According to this story from NJ.com, a customer in an Atlantic City restaurant bought a bottle of wine with dinner.  The server showed him a wine list and suggested a wine.  When he asked how much the wine cost, she said, “Thirty-Seven Fifty,” which he understood to mean $37.50.  She meant $3,750, and the wine list so indicated, but the customer did not have his reading glasses with him.  It’s an interesting fact pattern.

Fortunately, an episode of The Simpsons provides best practices in this area, as animated television sit-coms do in most areas.  In episode 8F09, Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk, Homer’s stock in the Springfield nuclear plant went up for the first time in ten years.  He sells and makes a cool $25.  Soon thereafter, the value of Homer’s stock rises to $5200, but that’s another matter.

Homer conte1mplates his options and decides to buy beer.  The following conversation with Moe (of Moe’s Tavern) ensues:

Moe: Want a Duff?

Homer (haughtily): No, I’d like a bottle of Henry K. Duff’s Private Reserve.

Moe  (Gasping): Are you sure? ‘Cause once I open the bottle, there’s no refund.

See?  That’s how it’s done!