{"id":96,"date":"2016-04-02T14:55:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-02T14:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/myinstatwitbook.com\/?p=96"},"modified":"2024-02-06T18:37:08","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T18:37:08","slug":"i-can-do-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myinstatwitbook.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/02\/i-can-do-math\/","title":{"rendered":"I Can Do Math?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/myinstatwitbook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/I-Can-Do-Math-April-2-2016-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-97\" style=\"width:353px;height:471px\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe it\u2019s just me, but it&#8217;s not me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Isn\u2019t $2.00 each the same as 2 for $4.00?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today as I was shopping for groceries, I saw this sign. I thought it was weird (so of course I snapped it for My Insta Twit Book) its weirdness was because $2.00 each or 2 for $4.00 is the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mathematically speaking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I was young, it was always a bit of a discount to buy in bulk. Like buy one for $2.50, get two for $4.00.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Actually, when I was young, it was buy one for $0.60, get 2 for $1.00!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hey, where\u2019d the cent symbol go? We still have cents! Don\u2019t we?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Okay, I\u2019ll save that thought for another MITB post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back to this one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sign said $2.00 each or 2 for $4.00.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I can do math! It\u2019s the same thing. It\u2019s still a $2.00 loaf of bread!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was telling my brother about this and he said that it made sense! Because sometimes it\u2019s not clear how much one is if the sign tells you how much 2 is. Huh! Not clear to who? People who can\u2019t do math! people who can&#8217;t add 2 + 2 and get 4?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Side bar: there are 3 types of people in the world; those that can do math and those that can\u2019t!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It also, he said, made it clear that someone doesn\u2019t think he\/she\/it has to buy two loaves of bread when they only need one. What, the grocery store has a Bread Quota Guard that insists you buy two when you only need one! Have we really come that far in consumerism?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How much do you think they pay, the Bread Quota Guard, I mean? Do they have benefits? A pension plan?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Where was I?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh yes, here I was. If pricing $2.00 bread is so confusing, then keep it simple sweetie and just mark the overpriced loaf of bread as $2.00 a loaf! And minus the 2\/$4.00 sign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See, I can do math!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe it\u2019s just me, but it&#8217;s not me. Isn\u2019t $2.00 each the same as 2 for $4.00? Today as I was shopping for groceries, I saw this sign. I thought it was weird (so of course I snapped it for My Insta Twit Book) its weirdness was because $2.00 each or 2 for $4.00 is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-its-not-me","category-random-acts-of-thought"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myinstatwitbook.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myinstatwitbook.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myinstatwitbook.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myinstatwitbook.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myinstatwitbook.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/myinstatwitbook.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168,"href":"https:\/\/myinstatwitbook.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions\/168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myinstatwitbook.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myinstatwitbook.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myinstatwitbook.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}