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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

Here’s my story from last weekend at a football game concession stand at my college alma mater. The order for three sandwiches and three coffees for my wife, my son and me came to an even $31. I handed the kid two twenties and a single - $41. He handed me back the single and wanted to give me a bunch of ones. I told him the change was just $10, give me two fives or a ten. He almost vapor-locked but recovered to get the change right.

Here’s the kicker: the stand was being run by the local high school band as a fund-raiser so the kid is no dummy. As I pointed out to my son, a band member through high school and college, the kid could be told that he was going to march 8 steps per 5 yards at 135 beats per minute and the music being played was in 6/8 time and he wouldn’t have a problem with doing any of that but math in his head just stumped him. It’s for the reason your illustration shows.


7 posted on 11/27/2015 10:53:54 AM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: T-Bird45
True story... I heard this typical South Philly resident caller on the sports-talk radio station in Philly during the mid 90s:

"Yeah, so I went to the Vet for the game last Sunday. I bought a hundred Dollars of beer there, AND I DIDN'T EVEN GET A BUZZ!!!"

19 posted on 11/27/2015 11:50:34 AM PST by Rodamala
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