Okay, we all know that most problems in our everyday existence outside of work or school will not deal with algebra, calculus, trigonometry , or any other advanced mathematical study. However, there is one study of math that we tend to use, and that is the basic math.
By basic math, I mean addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. We use these every day of our lives. However, it seems nowadays, that if people don’t have a damn calculator in their hand, they can’t even figure out simple addition. I was in the convenient store earlier this evening, when I was heading home from the rehearsals. Well, i was standing in line, and this women, about forty, who looked about as smart as a turnip and that is only if I feel inhospitable toward vegetables. It took her a few minutes to be able to process the only other person in the store’s lottery ticket. Finally, after the computer wouldn’t take the card, she punched it in by hand. So, she tells him that he has a four dollar ticket and an eleven dollar ticket. He said, just give me the cash. She goes over to the and gets fifteen dollars out of the drawer, and as she is walking the few steps toward the man, you could see her give that dipshit look, and I knew exactly what she was thinking. She was thinking the number eleven, and mentally counting four fingers till she counted four, to see that she was right with the fifteen dollars.
I’m sorry, but if you have to think hard about 11 + 4, then you should not be in a job where you are in charge of taking money, counting money, or simply touching money. I mean convenient stores are hurting to get people in there to work. They know they can’t get rally good people there, because they normally get the people who are either really stupid idiots, alcoholics, druggies, or they get the people with five kids, a five pack a day habit, and the IQ of dirt.
One thing the government could do is eliminate all calculators from grade school classrooms. I mean, when I went to high school, we could not use calculators. Not even on algebra. I mean if you went on to calc, then yes, you could use one. Not saying that i am “too old”, but it’s only been thirteen years since I graduated. I mean why do students in middle/jr high school need calculators? If they can’t figure out the math there in their head, then the government has failed to educate that child. I hear a lot of people making jokes about “How stupid W is..” Sorry, but most of the current generation of children will make him look like Albert Fucking Einstein.
