Oh what a feeling....Toyota!

Sometimes you just have to be there. I get it. Sometimes you hear a story that someone thinks is hilarious, but you just don't think it's that funny. Hopefully you, one of 7 readers, will enjoy this story as much as I did when I lived it.....

So I'm at work, and I'm walking through the store, and I walk up to a couple of associates standing there talking. Alicia is staring off in to space, as if she were in deep thought...

Me - "Alicia, what are you thinking about?"

Alicia - "Jen told me the miles she has on her truck, and I'm trying to figure out the decimal point."

Me - "Oh, ok. Jen, how many miles do you have on it?"

Jen - "Two Hundred and Ten Hundred Thousand miles."

Me, looking puzzled.... - "Um... you mean Two Hundred Ten Thousand, right?"

Jen - "No, Two Hundred and Ten Hundred Thousand miles."

At this point, I had given her the chance to correct herself, and she didn't take it. Maybe she was just tired. Maybe she hadn't taken a math class in a while. Maybe she didn't see the huge grin beginning to form on my face. So me, being the nice guy, tried to give her another chance to get out of it...

Me - "Jen, that's not a real number."

Jen - "No, when I bought it from the guy, he told me that's how many miles it had on it. He had it on a farm and they drove it alot."

Me - "Well Iv'e heard of some old Toyota's getting up to a million miles, after 20 years or so, but that's about it." (At this point I'm just trying to wrap up the conversation so I can go somewhere and laugh....)

Jen - "Well he said Two Hundred and Ten Hundred Thousand miles on it."

Me - "Well, whatever you paid for your truck, you have certainly got your money's worth!"

So I walked away, and the whole time, Alicia is still trying to figure out the decimal point.

I couldn't keep myself from laughing the rest of the day. I would think about the seriousness in her answers and I would start to grin and crack up.
Unfortunately, Jen quit, and is moving to Alaska with her boyfriend.
According to mapquest, it is 3227 miles from Englewood to Anchorage.

That would put her Toyota truck at

Two Hundred and Ten Hundred Thousand Three Thousand Two Hundred and Twenty Seven miles when she gets there....I think...

Oh what a feeling....Toyota!