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How Much
Not long after we changed to decimal money a suit from one of the upstairs offices came down and held a meeting in the bus workshops.
What is all this about says one - supposed to go through the union says another, anyway the suit starts dribbling on about the cost of things and we were using far too many new wheel nuts. Like a teacher he asks 'do you know how much a wheel nut costs', noooo says we now totally uninterested - '50 new pence' says he. Up pipes our resident workshop genius and says 50 new pence is 10 shillings and with the suit nodding in agreement goes on to say there was 120 pennies in 10 shillings so it's not our fault you can only get one wheel nut for 50 pence now.
Meeting quickly finished after that.
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