Pete is outraged because the price is more than he expected… but that’s because he was looking at the phone number, not the estimate…. am I getting this right?
A (U.S.) phone number is 10 digits… but the first three are the area code.
OK, say it was local, so the mechanic only wrote 7 digits…. and we’ll say Pete saw the last two numbers as after the decimal point.
Most prefixes don’t start with a “1” but let’s even give him that….
So the mechanic scribbled “123-4567”… low for a phone number… and Pete read that as the price….
He’d be expecting a bill of $12,345 and it was MORE than that?
Whoa!
More likely a phone number would start higher… 543-2100 would be $54,321.00.
OK, I’m confused….
Pete is outraged because the price is more than he expected… but that’s because he was looking at the phone number, not the estimate…. am I getting this right?
A (U.S.) phone number is 10 digits… but the first three are the area code.
OK, say it was local, so the mechanic only wrote 7 digits…. and we’ll say Pete saw the last two numbers as after the decimal point.
Most prefixes don’t start with a “1” but let’s even give him that….
So the mechanic scribbled “123-4567”… low for a phone number… and Pete read that as the price….
He’d be expecting a bill of $12,345 and it was MORE than that?
Whoa!
More likely a phone number would start higher… 543-2100 would be $54,321.00.
What do these guys charge per hour???