Where Did The Ringgit Go??

Three men went on holiday. Upon arriving in KL, being back-packers, they look around for the cheapest room rates. Finally, deep in the heart of Chow Kit, they find a 'hotel' charging RM30 a night, and being back-packing cheapskates, they decide to share a room. So they each fork over RM10, pay the leering Auntie, and retire for the night.

A few minutes after they left the front desk, the Auntie recalled that being the middle of March when tourists were few and far between, the 'hotel' was currently offering promotional rates of RM25/room per night. Now, while honest Chow Kit Aunties are few and far between, this one feared karmic repercussions, so she calls over her p!mp, i mean, bell-boy, and gave him RM5 and told him to return it to the poofs who just checked in.

So the pi.. bell boy goes up to return the money. Once out of Auntie's sight, he thinks to himself, "Why don't I just give 'em back RM1 each, and pocket the RM2. After all this trudging up and down the stairs, I deserve a teh-tarik break, wat?"

So he gives them RM1 each and goes for his teh-tarik, leaving our three travellers ecstatic and patting each other on the back for pulling off the amazing feat of getting a room in KL for under RM10 per person.

Now, at RM9 apiece, they ended up paying only RM27 for the room, as 9 x 3 =27. Add to that the money the bellpimpboy pocketed, RM27 + RM2 = RM29.

.... Wasn't there supposed to be RM30??

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