A girl decided to go to an estate sale on the far side of town. She looked through the dresses, electric scissors, and hiking the western hills. When she came upon an orange booklet about insects, she thought of her father. He’d had one similar and read it in his easy chair on Sunday evenings. It had a sticker of five dollars on the inside. When she walked up to pay the man who sat in a blue camping chair he used an electric calculator (again, one that was like her father used to have) to come to a total of $2.50. The girl was surprised. And the man said, “Was that not what you thought?” And the girl said, “I didn’t realize it was half off, but that’s even better.” After she left she second-guessed her own words. Why is it better? She thought. Why is it better to be half off?