Taking 200

Time for the puzzler.

This is not new. Well, it might be new-to-you, if you're a new fan.

Anyway, here we go.

Years ago, back in the 80's, a guy walks into a hardware store to purchase something for his house.

He asks the clerk, "How much is one?"

The clerk says, "60 cents."

And the guys say, "Okay, how much for 12?"

And the clerk says, "$1.20."

So the guy says, "Okay then. I'll take 200."

And the clerk says, "That'll be $1.80."

And the puzzler is very simple.

What was he buying?

Good luck friends.

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Remember last week's puzzler?

The Next Light

This one is short, and not that detailed.
Sometimes you just gotta give a simple one.

Here it is.

I was driving on an access road going to get on the freeway. There was a convertible in front of me, top down.

Beautiful day.

There was a couple in the car, which I assume were husband and wife. The car was a small sport type with a standard transmission.

We had about three stoplights to go until the on ramp for the freeway.

At every stoplight, the couple would turn to each other and have a conversation. When the light turned green, the conversation would stop until they stopped at the next light.

In other words, they would stop talking until they'd come up to the next light.

Then at the light, while stopped, they would start talking again.

The puzzler is, why did they only talk at red lights?

There was no loud background noise. The car was not excessively noisy. They did not have the radio on.