I have to vent!

[fields_mj]

Shoot, maybe I should vent more. I end up pulling my hair out before it has a chance to go gray. It's sad, dad has more hair than I do...

 

[vegas39]

So... stop saving him? Let him sit on the side of the road all night. Bet he won't let it gel up again.

No but the poor kid may gel up though!

 

[The Warden]

I laughed and cried all the way thru this, Some of you have met my Son, way smart and mechanically talented , and even he brain farts some simple stuff.

Sounds about right he's certainly a good kid!

Mel, you dont need to know multiplication tables, thats what calculators are for.

I found out to my horrified surprise that calculators will not always be there for you didn't realize until May that I wouldn't be allowed to use a calculator for the math portion of an exam I was planning to take in June, and I hadn't done math without a calculator since 4th grade (and I was NEVER a good math student!!) I ended up needing to postpone the exam until the next session in October and used the Internet to give myself a crash course in long division and multiplication. My mom had fun rubbing it in (she had always told me that I needed to remember how to do math without a calculator but I thought it'd never be necessary).

As someone who's not a parent, I can't offer much more...except to say that I'm eternally grateful for both of my parents, and I hope that I gave them as little grief as possible even while I'm pretty sure that I didn't...

 

[Optikalillushun]

The older I get...The smarter dad was (and still is).

 

[MIDNIGHT RIDER]

I found out to my horrified surprise that calculators will not always be there for you didn't realize until May that I wouldn't be allowed to use a calculator for the math portion of an exam I was planning to take in June, and I hadn't done math without a calculator since 4th grade
...

I despise pocket calculators, adding-machines, cash registers, and such, much preferring to either use my head or pencil and paper.

The only times I reach for a calculator is when figuring logarithms, algorithms, sines, cosines, and such.

Plain old math or Algebra I will always do the old time way.


Splitting fractions and angles are functions that I often have to do, so it just comes natural.

Also, I used to order-buy cattle a lot; and, one must be able to instantly know how many cents/pound a 485-pound calf is gonna have to bring when split off a 1265-pound cow that you know will bring 54-cents/pound, when you just bought, or are bidding on, the pair together by the head; cow men will know what I am talking about.

 

[redneckaggie]

midnight the funny part is at the local auction they never gave you weight until they left the ring so you would see new guys come in and just shake their head when they underguessed the wieght of the cow by about 200 pounds

 

[MIDNIGHT RIDER]

midnight the funny part is at the local auction they never gave you weight until they left the ring so you would see new guys come in and just shake their head when they underguessed the wieght of the cow by about 200 pounds

When you're good enough, they don't have to show the weights; you just know.