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My husband can't count! He can't do simple math. Mind you, he has a PhD in Engineering, yet can't figure out how to tip. He could probably do complex equations in his head, but 2 + 2 doesn't equate. He just pulled $1000 out of our checking account in Japan, then sent an email saying he was tired and that he could have yanked out $100 or $1,000, but that it's okay, because his company will reimburse us. Sorry for the run-on sentence, but it seemed to fit my rant. So, now we have absolutely no money with which to buy groceries or gas for the next two weeks, unless I want to use credit cards.
AAAAAARRRRGGGGGHHHHHH.
Thanks, I'm feeling better. Anyone else have a spouse like this? Someone who is highly intelligent, but a complete idiot in one arena.
I'm an intelligent person who can't count. I always say that in order to count to 21, I need to borrow someone else's hand.
The only math I ever did well in was geometry, and that's because there were pictures. That part isn't a joke, by the way. Math "all by itself" simply does not make sense to me. But seeing it in two dimensions (a circle...a triangle) turns it somehow into something logical for me.
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My husband can't count! He can't do simple math. Mind you, he has a PhD in Engineering, yet can't figure out how to tip. He could probably do complex equations in his head, but 2 + 2 doesn't equate. He just pulled $1000 out of our checking account in Japan, then sent an email saying he was tired and that he could have yanked out $100 or $1,000, but that it's okay, because his company will reimburse us. Sorry for the run-on sentence, but it seemed to fit my rant. So, now we have absolutely no money with which to buy groceries or gas for the next two weeks, unless I want to use credit cards.
AAAAAARRRRGGGGGHHHHHH.
Thanks, I'm feeling better. Anyone else have a spouse like this? Someone who is highly intelligent, but a complete idiot in one arena.
I'm married to a great lady, very bright and college degreed. She gets lost in a closet & has no sense of time / space. But that's why she keeps me around is to do all the driving & keep her on time (mostly)
Oh yah... she paid a $67 cable bill on line and forgot to put the decimal point in. Took us awhile to recover the $6700 we sent to the cable company.
Oh, I know some people with time/space problems, too. They are the butt of many of their friends' jokes. One guy can be off by months. In fact, he just asked us the other day when Easter was going to be. He's probably celebrating Labor Day this weekend.
My Phd in Pharmaceutics spouse has no sense of time or geography or how long it might take to go from here to there or what his mother's telephone number is or how to get to her house or what my best friend's name is (we've been married for 7 years and she's been to visit us probably 10 times during that time!!!) However, he writes these scientific papers that I totally cannot comprehend. So he earns the money doing that and I do everything else .
I am very intelligent bookwise, and I can talk about any subject and convince you I'm an expert. However, I suck pretty hardcore at math, and couldn't tell you almost anything I learned in highschool. I'm very surprised I even passed my math classes with a B average, because it neither made sense at the time nor does it now that I am older. I can do basic math in my head (addition, subtraction, multiplication, some division) but anything beyond that and I need to call up my asian friends.
I am with JerZ, if I see something I have a very mechanical mind, and I can understand it. But I don't understand it in a 'numbers' sense of the way, I understand it as if the two shapes or lines or whatever were real, and I can approach it from a visual angle.
I am willing to bet that if I spent the next ten years learning math and advanced math, I would forget it all a year later. If it doesn't have a very practical application on my world and life, I think my brain just casts it out or something.
I'm bad with tipping too, I literally always tip too much because I'm afraid that if I trust my instinct I'll tip far too little. I can count by fives and tens, that's it.:P
I don't have a spouse but i'm a chemist with a horrible sense of direction. Don't know my north from south and can't give directions worth 2 cents. But I can murder a differential equation
I don't have a spouse but i'm a chemist with a horrible sense of direction. Don't know my north from south and can't give directions worth 2 cents. But I can murder a differential equation
Whadya mean...? How'bout Pushkin?
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