I used to wish that drugs were considered cool back in highschool. I was the only person who has ever tried anything...even pot... in my entire highschool until the summer after 11th grade when I got a bunch of my friends to smoke with me. We smoked this huge ass spliff of the nastiest Mexi-weed in the world. It was great I also got a bunch of people to smoke with me at graduation. I had to ditch my pipe because a security guard saw us and started chasing us... so I just rolled a joint out of a gas station reciept. Not the best thing to smoke out of... but yet again, it was great.
I dislike it who people think that Math is its own entity, it's just another human invention. I just like how it manages to support itself so well... no other "science" can do that. Plus, imaginary numbers and such crazy ass things are way too much fun. But at the same time, I liked every single subject in school.
People find even the most simple arithmathic(sp) almost impossible here without the aid of a calculator. I think it's amusing. In Laos , I bought 2 beers. 7000kip each. Handed over 20,000kip. The young chick walked to the cash drawer and then stood there looking puzzled for about 4-5 mins. She eventually came back and handed me 2 x 2000kip notes. When I looked up puzzled. She shrugged, smiled, and said, 'We no 2000kip, solly" and handed me a pack of biscuits.
I am not surprised she was lost in the transaction although if I were there i would have said something different, like "weird, where the hell am I?"
I guess that some people value biscuits more than math. At least you got 'em biscuits. I was in a Walmart a couple of months ago, and it took the cashier 5 minutes to try and subtract 15.67 from 22.00 or something like that. I kept on telling her the amount but she said that she had to verify it with her math (the register calculator wasn't working for some reason). I was amazed.
did you think every cashier in Arkansas was an up and coming math graduate from college who was just starting out?
$6.33, right? Maybe I should apply for a job in Wal-mart in Arkansas. It only took me about 4 minutes to do it.
Hahaha She looked like someone who would work in Walmart too. I don't know why they would put her on the cigarette line.