How Many?

I had a customer come in today.

Wanting some of our inexpensive gold fish for their pond.

So I was like "Okay. Which size and how many?"

"I need the large ones."

"Okay, and how many?"

"The largest ones you can get."

"Okay....but how many did you want?"

Because I could fish out the largest of the large gold fish that we had in our tank.

But....without knowing how many the customer wanted,

I could be fishing out all 400 goldfish.

Knowing that they were going into a pond I figured that they'd want probably around 20 or so.

So after I started netting out the larger ones, I'd caught like three.

The customer, after pointing out which ones they wanted, finally said "I think 6 will be fine."

Six.

Okay, I can do six.

It makes it easier to be more picky with the fish when its a smaller number that I have to fish out.

-Sarnic Dirchi