This thread is definitely getting warmer....

(Actual conversation overheard this morning in a breakfast diner, transcribed in passing):

"So we get there, and we are walking down the street, and I think, like, wouldn't it be great to get a cup of coffee. Guess."
"I don't know. $5.00?"
"$5.25. I couldn't believe it. And my husband had, what do you call it, you know, something latte, and guess --"
"How can I guess when I don't know what it was?"
"You know, anyway, it was $7.00. We decided right then that we were probably going to starve to death. Then later, at the hotel, I had a burger and fries, well, not really, you couldn't call it a real burger, they can't make them there, isn't that strange, you would think with all the McDonald's everywhere, they would have learned. $20.00. $20."
"Wow."
(and so on).
yours, Peter T.