Cut the Order in Half

Kevin Helgard of Haver, Montana sent us a great email about misunderstandings.

Kevin writes,

Many years ago, I was attending a conference at a hotel.

The original pastry order for the conference was four dozen donuts.

At the end of the first day, only about half of the pastries were consumed.

My boss asked the hotel meeting server to please cut the pastry order in half for the next day.

You know where this is going, Grant.

I do indeed.

Sure enough, we arrived the next day and there were four dozen donuts neatly cut in half.

Oops.

To the letter.

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