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Originally Posted by spence
So I'm at the local Portsmouth grocery buying some fillet from the butcher shop. I ask the young man working the case for 2 fillets of about seven to eight ounces each.
He grabs one that's obviously too small and places it on the scale where it reads .35 pounds. He thinks for a second exposing a brief but painful look, then asks if that's ok.
Amazed at his lack of basic mathematics, I point out two fillets in the case which together were .95 pounds. Yes...magic.
So yesterday I tell the story to my 15 year old stepson, and ask him what the .35 pound read should have indicated.
He was clueless and admitted he didn't even know how many ounces were in a pound!
WTF are we teaching these dumbazzed kids? 
-spence |
I'd have to say the only reason I would have had no problem with that was due to our recreational habbits that often required some weights and measures to make sure you got what you were paying for when it came to the greener things in life...