I believe my mum
once spent about 10 minutes trying to get a scale to read as zero so she could measure out some flour or something. Because it wasn't calibrated it read as 10g or whatever with nothing in it, so she started cleaning it, dusting it, washing and drying it, I can only imagine this was because she thought the dust was adding the extra weight. She was putting pressure on it and letting go, I don't know what this would achieve. Cue me walking in and telling her to zero it.
(MikeyNiv can coin snatch 32 pennies, Thu 15 Jul 2010, 23:39, 3 replies)

Please tell me she replied "ooh, I thought that was
for when you'd put too much in after ripping a bag. Why else would it say "tare"?"

apols for a play on similar sounding words, and similar sounding word to your mother.
( uberdeity Wondered why Owen Lars knew of the term "hell" on, Fri 16 Jul 2010, 9:33, closed)

Or...
... she could have subtracted 10 from the final reading.
(gordonjcp, Fri 16 Jul 2010, 10:13, closed)

That's exactly what I would have done
if I didn't know how to zero a scales.
(mmm....beer, Sun 18 Jul 2010, 23:17, closed)