Me: I need a new pair of blue slacks. These are falling apart.
TR: What size do you wear?
Me: Between a 34 and a 36. So 35, I guess… but they don’t make odd sizes.
TR: They do, they just don’t make many of them, so they’re hard to find.
Me: Yeah. I think the ratio’s like 50 to 1.
TR: Something like that.
Me: Or, more likely, every few hundred pairs of pants, some worker measures wrong, and they go “Oops. Can’t throw those out, slap a 35 label on it.”
