It's my fault for using math.

[depechemodefan]

I hate when people call the library for us to do math. Um, I failed calculus, but I can tell you how to get the odds for the lottery!

Yesterday someone called, asking how many leages were in an acre. Figure out what wrong with that.

Oh, and there are the people who don't know how to add/subtract the retail value of a car with the milage value.

[Dark-Star]

You mean like a horse? Gods, I would have been fired because I SWEAR I would have whinnied at her.

I now have a mental image of a anthro female horse, standing in front of a counter with a big frown on her face and stamping a back foot (hoof) to show her attitude.

[Stormraven]

Math and I have a rocky relationship. While it was still basic, somewhat advanced, everything was fine - better than fine, even. I love math. Then Algebra came along and stomped my face into the ground - three times. Since I'm not a masochist, I had to leave.

But of course, the woman in the OP may have just had a love/hate relationship. As long as math was telling her what she wanted to hear, she was fine - it's only when it wouldn't support her scam that she stopped listening.

[RebeccaOTool]

Dilbert posed the perfect answer to such inquiries "I decliene the invitation to join your hallucination."

[Becks]

Math and I have a rocky relationship. While it was still basic, somewhat advanced, everything was fine - better than fine, even. I love math. Then Algebra came along and stomped my face into the ground - three times. Since I'm not a masochist, I had to leave.

Sounds exactly like me.

[chainedbarista]

wow, she couldn't figure out how the prices worked on meat?

i've known that since i was a kid; maybe a math challenged kid is better at pricing than she is??

good job on the pwnage!

[Geek King]

PSSH! Lightweight!
I find the patterns in random numbers that show up in random sequences.
4, 16, 82, hike!
Yup, yup. Much fun, particularly when I start adding to it by 'finding' the next number in the sequence.
Let's start easy: Each of those is divisible by 2, leaving 2, 8, and 41. The steps from each are: +6 and +35. The step there is +29... I'm lost now... but usually I can go higher.

If you start from zero, the steps become 2,6,35. The steps for those are 4, 29--leaving a step of 25 between them. 29 + 25 = 54, so the next step of the 6,35 sequence would be +54, making the 2,8,41 sequence 2,8,41,95 which, in turn, makes the origional sequence 4,16,82,190,...

Now, if the "hike!" wasn't just in jest, and the numbers really pertain to football jerseys, 190 is too high for the standard American jersey system, which only goes from 00 to 99, so we drop the hundereds and the sequence becomes 4,16,82,90


What?

[Apathy]

SC: Well I don't approve of that.

Ooooooooook. That's nice, but that's how the world works, whether you "approve" or not. Idiot.

[Crow The Robot]

"get out of my store you multiplication-hating bigot." That was the response that sprung to mind for me. I am sooo wierd