When trying to explain taxes and calculating percentages I gave an example of a misting fan costing $159.98 with a sales tax of 8%. Before we could proceed to solving the problem someone asked me what a misting fan was. As I was giving a description he cut me off and said he believed it was a typo and should have said missing fan instead. I asked him what a missing fan was. He explained it as such: "It means that you had a fan but it's missing because I took it. Now if you want to get your fan back you will have to pay me $159.98."