Saturday, October 15, 2005

My DH , who is a Math teacher and constantly whines about how bad his students are gave another example to me of a college education gone bad. He was telling me about taking a roll of quarters to the bank with his checks to deposit and the guy behind him said he'd buy the quarters from him. My DH said he'd replied no, he'd already put it on the slip. I said to him, "Well, it would've added up either way." He insisted that he'd already put the total on the deposit slip. So I said, " But it says 'CASH', not coins" and he realized that he'd made the same kind of stupid mistake his students make - he didn't realize that folding cash is the same as jingling cash and that $10 is $10 whether it's dollar bills or quarters. Sheesh....

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