"PocoLoco" wrote in message
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On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 15:54:38 GMT, "Doug Kanter"

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"PocoLoco" wrote in message
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On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 15:28:11 GMT, "Doug Kanter"

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"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
news On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 14:53:55 GMT, "Doug Kanter"
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He was bitching loudly that this was not physics, this was
math, and even though he got a 99 in AP math this past spring, he was
finding this a bit challenging. I calmed him down with a strawberry
smoothie, and suggested that his physics teacher assigned this stuff
to
blow
the summer cobwebs out of their brains, and evaluate who was going to
be
challenged when the real physics began, like..next week. His response:
"Nice
slam, dad. You think we don't use our brains all summer?"

Tell him this - he is about to enter the realm of pure mathematics and
if he thinks this is not "physics", he's about to learn a very
interesting lesson. Yes there are experiments, yes there is hands
one, yes you observe. But you have to describe these things and the
only way you can do that is mathematically.

Has he taken pre-calculus yet?

He's taking pre-calc this year. And, AP English (so he doesn't become
president), social studies, French (after a 2 year hiatus during which
he
forgot everything), swim team, track team, working one job. Out of his
mind,
but he enjoys it.


I wish more people had sons like yours!

Me too. He's one of the few kids his age who understand that if you're a
cashier at a grocery store, you do not under ANY circumstances give a
customer a bag for a package of gum.


At our local Safeway, the cashiers ask, "Will you require assistance
outside
with that, sir?" Their rule is that they must do this if the customer has
two or
more bags.

So one of these days I'll buy a loaf of bread (one bag) and a half-gallon
of ice
cream (another bag), and say 'yes' to their question, I just want to see
what
happens.

BTW, have you noticed that what we used to call 'half-gallon' size ice
cream
containers now hold, for most brands, 1.75 quarts? Safeway had Breyers on
sale,
and the little sign said "Breyers Half Gallon". The manager was very
surprised
when I took her little sign to her and explained that the advertising was
false.

Not sure when this change was made, in ice cream containers, but it
definitely
****ed me off. I don't think the exterior dimensions of the containers
have
changed, they're just not filled!

It changed a couple three four five six maybe seven years ago.