I got a call from the hospital billing department to tell me what my estimated share of Thursdays ‘oscopies’ will be after the insurance has paid their bit. The girl I was speaking to said my part would be about $550 and that they require payment of at least half up front. So I said sure, I’ll go ahead and pay half now.
I walk over to the desk and get my wallet and pull out my debit card. I’m getting ready to give her the card number when I’m suddenly aware of her still stammering on the other end of the line. I realize that the girl is still struggling to figure out what half of $550 is. ‘Ok, good, so that’s... um... hang on... ok, you’ll pay...’
This goes on for a few seconds and then I decide to put her out of her misery and I say, ‘Let’s just make it an even $300 today.’ Thinking this would put an end to the struggle as it was clearly more than the requested half. She says ‘Ok, um...sure.......’
Then I realized that now she wasn’t sure if that was more or less than half. Oh, that new math....
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