Mind you, I have to pay attention to $400,000.00 budgets, line items, audit findings, invoices, etc. (The unfun part of my job.)
So today, I call the school cafeteria and ask them why they didn't credit my son's account with the 10 lunches I paid for. "You only gave us enough for 6 lunches," they reply. In all my astute wisdom, I say (and yes, this is a direct quote):
"Well, 10 times $1.75 IS $10.75, is it not?"
Stupid zeros. They always end up in the wrong places when I don't use my calculator.
All right - help me feel not so alone here. share YOUR idiocy of the day.
[ January 21, 2004, 11:24 PM: Message edited by: Shan ]
Posted by Hazen (Member # 161) on :
I'm just starting a computer science class. We turn in some assignments online. The first week the teacher warned us that the first assignment was due that Friday. So I turned it in on Friday. The next Friday comes along (the 16th), and I do assignment #2. I go to turn it in, and I find that it only has a spot for the assignment #3. I figure, no biggie, they just misnumbered, so I submit it their. Then today I look, and I notice that assignment #2 was due the 14th, Wednesday, and it is #3 due on Friday. I had just assumed that we only had one a week! So I got 0s on #s 2 and 3. Luckily they aren't worth a lot, so I can recover, but I still feel dumb.
Posted by Tstorm (Member # 1871) on :
Ok, I'll share. Mine brings a smile to my face everytime I think about it.
I work at a retail electronics store. My section is cameras, camcorders, and printers, and I sometimes assist customers from the general merchandise section (video games).
A kind, naive-looking lady walks over to me with a controller for a Playstation 2 and asks, "What does this mean...it says it has a vibration function."
I said, with absolutely no hesitation or forethought, and to me, it was utterly obvious, "That means it has a vibrator in it."
Ha. I was right...naive. She didn't even notice the obvious double-meaning until I stammered out something about, "That could be taken the wrong way...basically, it gives feedback to the user, like it vibrates when driving a car game."
Posted by Zotto! (Member # 4689) on :
I just looked at Shan's "Well, 10 times $1.75 IS $10.75, is it not?" quote and didn't realize what was wrong with it for nearly a full minute.
I blame society.
Posted by Princess Leah (Member # 6026) on :
PSATS. Rather vital for my future. So naturally:
Q: Write out the numbers 1-25 on slips of paper and put them in a bag. What is the probability that you draw a prime number.
So I look at this question, thinking it must be a trick. Basically what you have to know is what a prime is and how to count. But I am nervous because I am sure there is a catch. Those test-writers are not known for kindness. So I very carefully write out all the prime numbers from 1-25 as follows:
2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 23.
I am careful to not include 1 and 9 and 15 and 21. That might be the trick they wish to snare me with!!!
I never considered that it was to make me forget something rather neccesary, in fact rather the "prime" requirement in answering the question: 19
Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
psst... isn't 1 considered the ultimate prime number too?
Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
I forgot the word "temperature." And I'm wearing a princess tiara to work.
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
As far as I know, 1 is in fact, not prime.
Hobbes Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
Bet you don't have a tiara, Hobbes.
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
No, but I'm about to leave for a CS lab with my staff.
Hobbes Posted by Ayelar (Member # 183) on :
I once forgot the english word for "potato"! I could only think of the german.
I have red face moments every single day. I'm very prone to blushing, and I'll turn a bright red pretty much any time I'm the center of attention here at work. Very embarrassing. Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
why isn't one prime? Is it something else?
AJ
Posted by msquared (Member # 4484) on :
It probably has to do with definition of prime, which, IIRC, is divides evenly only by 1 and itself. Now it can be argued that 1 meets this criteria, but others would say that it is redundant.
Any math majors?
msquared
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Whether 1 is prime or not has been debated for a LONG time. It is usually defined as being in a class alone, neither prime nor composite.
The interesting debates are about whether -1 is prime. Posted by jack (Member # 2083) on :
From that same site, but on a different page, "Prime numbers have exactly two factors, not 'at most two' or anything like that."
Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
[Self-bannage, 2 days in the penalty box. Don't ask.]
[ January 22, 2004, 12:45 PM: Message edited by: ClaudiaTherese ]
Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
Let me guess...you sat on your tiara...
...
And that led to a surgery...
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
How about having a teacher of a big lecture think your asleep and try to come up and sit down next to you continuing the lecture. Especially when you aren't really alseep!
Woah, that came out of left center.... calm down Hobbes.
Hobbes
[ January 22, 2004, 01:41 PM: Message edited by: Hobbes ]
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Maybe you were just pining.
Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
Ok, I'm surprised I didn't know that about one, especially considering the number of math nerds I've been around in my life. I sort of viewed one as the "ultimate" prime number. It makes sense about excluding it because of the factoring issues.
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