I was at a fast food joint a couple years ago and had just handed the cashier my money and the power went out. The cash drawer had already opened.
He didn’t miss a beat and counted out my change perfectly. Other cashiers were at a standstill — no digital display of the change due. They watched my cashier almost in awe.
I asked him, “Home schooled?”
Him: Yes ma’am.
At my first job out of college a crazy old chemist guy used to test young engineers with various algebra to calculus type problems. We became good friends because I was the only young punk ass engineer who solved his last problem in 5 minutes…
A caterpillar crawls onto an infinitely elastic rubber band.
The initial length of the rubber band is 8 inches.
The inchworm moves forward along the rubber band at a rate of 1 inch per minute
At the end of each minute, the rubber band instantaneously stretches in length by 8 inches
How long if ever will it take for the inchworm to reach the end of the rubber band?
“Witch!”
Cool story.
When I was a mere lad I worked at various gas stations. Back then as the attendant we pumped the gas, had a coin changer on our belt and a big wad of rolled up bills in our shirt pocket. We pumped the gas, got customers packs of cigarettes, a quart of oil, or both.
We collected the cash payment as hardly anyone used a credit card then. We pushed our coin changer for the correct coins and pulled out our wad of bills to provide final change to the customers all day long, even during peak rush times. Calculators weren’t even a thing yet.
By the way, I also really did walk to elementary school every day, even through the dead of winter.
So yeah, get off my lawn!