Ireland (observed): I forgot this one

[waider]

Three people, aged roughly late teens, early twenties, mid-forties, hesitantly calculating 200 - 4.

In front of a fully electronic cash register.

Comments

[niallm.livejournal.com]

Are you kidding? Was the actual equation 200 - 4 or something else?

[mskala.livejournal.com]

So, what answer did they get? Don't leave us in suspense!

[waidesworld.livejournal.com]

42 of course, the answer to everything isn't it?