Ideas and Opinions

Our friend McNeil was walking by a bookshelf recently, and... well, I'll let him speak for himself: "I noticed 'Ideas and Opinions' - Albert Einstein. And I suddenly remembered buying that book off the bargain table at The Intimate Bookshop [sounds dirty! - ed.], thinking it would make me look smart. I got it off the bookshelf and the receipt was still in it. Now, on the inside of the dust jacket someone clearly marked in pen $3.88. But according to the receipt (dated 9-7-83) I am charged $3.98!!! I was not a wealthy man in the summer of 83. Nineteen years old and living off tips in my parent's attic. That dime. That precious dime!!! Someone should figure out the compound interest on that dime if I had invested it in something fancy and I'll get a lawyer for some of their money - if they weren't out of business already. And I don't think compound interest is the term I'm looking for."