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two or four

I was having a bad time trying to get my requirements across. The clerk was doing his best to be helpful but was having trouble understanding what I wanted.
“Say again what you want?” He asked.
I took a slow, gentle breath and trying hard not to roll my eyes began, once again, from the beginning, “I’d like two, four watt, 5 volt light bulbs.”

Still with a confused look, he asked, “two what?”
“No four.” I replied, a hint of annoyance creeping into my voice.
“Four what?” he asked.
“Yes!” I exclaimed, we’d been here before.
“Yes what?” he continued to ask.
“What?” I asked. Now I was really getting confused.
“How many ‘what’ do you want?”
“Four!”
“So you want four of them?”
“No, two.”
“Two what?”

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