Monday, August 10, 2009

A shrinking Gallon

Recently I was painting Billy's room and the first container of paint I bought was 1 US gallon. No big deal, this has always been the size of paint cans. I expected nothing different.

The second can of paint looked exactly the same, but as I was painting I noticed that it was actually only 3 15/16th of a gallon. I was cheated out of 1/16th of gallon of paint.

About a day later I got another container of paint and this time it was 3 7/8th of a gallon. This time I was cheated out of 2/16th of a gallon.

At this rate I will be getting droppers of paint by the time Billy is 7 years old.

2 comments:

Lyndsey PIE said...

how interesting! i wonder why they do that... ?

McCulley said...

They trick you into thinking you get a gallon...this saves them a little bit of paint and gives them a slightly larger profit.