Most of those degrees (as well as law, psychology, and art) are brain-busting bitches...
Things like learning to read things like:
- See the dog...
- See the brown dog...
- See the brown dog run...
In about 12-to-16 years, once this is mastered, learning to count without taking your shoes off is the next hurdle...
Finally, at the Ph.D. level, there is this question (With a 70% failure rate):
- If you buy a pack of gum for a nickel and give the clerk a quarter, how much change does the clerk hand you back?
Whatever those digital numbers tell me to give back?
Wear, where . . .
“...how much change does the clerk hand you back?”
All of it! Empty the till buddy, or I’ll shoot yo a$$!
I made my living as a library cataloger. That was my masters degree. The PhD in Philosophy was for grins
That depends on whether the clerk has gone to college.
To some degree that depends where you live.
Here and today that could be somewhere between 15 and 20 cents.
We are close enough to Canada that their coins show up regularly. It seems every handful of change has at least one. When I was a kid we hated getting ripped off when someone gave us Canadian coins because some stores were very cautious to refuse them. We thought it was a big deal to trick a cashier into taking them.
The clerk is probably smarter than the Ph. D. and will convince the Ph. D. that he only gave him a nickel not a quarter.
The clerk is smart enough to know that every nickel counts, and if you can stiff the dumbass you are ahead of the game.
That purchase of gum is happening in 1955...You are a time traveler !!!!