Probably the clerk would make the price easy for me, but there was nothing else to do.

"The clerk made judgments based on political motives," she said.

The clerk made a face, as if it hurt to search his memory for something that happened all of fourteen hours ago.

"Usually, the clerk would make the incorrect assumption and give me the rate since I knew enough to ask for it."

He could hear the reply that the clerk was making to a question.

The clerk makes $136,700 a year and serves a four-year term.

Both times a clerk listened, made a phone call, said the bill was a mistake and told her to ignore it.

Just before she paid, the clerk made a phone call and then took $20 off the price.

"That clerks are making decisions on medical matters is just not true," he said.

The rest were taken one by one, each asked for his name, that the clerk might make a record of it.