At the local bakery, the manager decided to try out a new automated order-taking robot to speed up things during the morning rush. The first customer asked for “a dozen rolls, please,” and the robot nodded cheerfully. But then the mix-up started: when a baker said, “We need more nuts for the pecan pies,” the robot promptly rang up a dozen nut packages as if the bakery was selling snacks instead of baking with them. Things got sillier when someone requested “a little extra dough for the bread today,” and the robot immediately tried to charge them. By the end of the day, the whole team was baffled, especially when a customer asked for “half a dozen cupcakes” and the robot printed a bill for half the bakery’s inventory. It turns out the robot took everything very literally — including every baking term!
So from now on, the bakery’s motto is: You knead to speak clearly around the robot if you don’t want a very expensive bill!