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I was on the way back from a trip, and at the JFK airport I decided to buy a couple of things for my girls. I picked an origami book and a plush “emperor” penguin doll. The lady at the counter just rings up the penguin and it comes up as totaling a billion dollars (including taxes)!

The poor lady at the counter couldn’t cancel the order for some reason, so she called another lady to help her, who called their manager, who called the main finance person, who then called some guy. I think they had like 5 people trying to figure out what happened to this register.

They took me to another store to pay for the item, which cost about 6$. It’s kind of funny, but I would have thought these cash registers wouldn’t even charge over a million dollars, specially at a store like this.

Filed under: Life, Travel on October 13th, 2007