So.
We are attending a marriage class at our church on Sunday nights. Last night there was a section of questions, one of them listing six possible things you might find yourself spending time doing in relationship with your spouse. You were to list a percentage next to each thing.
There were six.
You had to list a percentage.
Okay. I know that if you divide 100 by four, you can get a nice clean 20%--which also enables you to divide that nice clean number 20 by a few other things.
But this was six.
I leaned over and whispered to Jeff that this was going to be a big problem for me.
He quickly perused the question and said, "It's 18% each."
Oh.
Well...that is still a problem because how do you divide 18 into other numbers? I mean really.
I studied the options for awhile. I tried to figure out how to add and subtract from 18 to get other percentages.
I noticed that the woman next to me was busily filling in her numbers--which blew my opinion that a man wrote the Bible study. But then I remembered that she was an accountant or something.
Great.
I didn't want to seem like the dummy in the class. No one else seemed to be having trouble. So I did what I normally do when I am subjected to a math question that is too hard for me.
I skip it.
Maybe next week we can talk about writing out our feelings or something. Yeah. That would work out well for me.
**UPDATE...my dad just emailed me and pointed out that 100 divided by 4 is 25, not 20. Baahahahahaha. I rest my case.
Also...when Jeff got home from work he said that he originally said 18 and then said, 'Well, actually it would be 16. 66 or something." I never heard him say that, so I apologize to my man.
We are attending a marriage class at our church on Sunday nights. Last night there was a section of questions, one of them listing six possible things you might find yourself spending time doing in relationship with your spouse. You were to list a percentage next to each thing.
There were six.
You had to list a percentage.
Okay. I know that if you divide 100 by four, you can get a nice clean 20%--which also enables you to divide that nice clean number 20 by a few other things.
But this was six.
I leaned over and whispered to Jeff that this was going to be a big problem for me.
He quickly perused the question and said, "It's 18% each."
Oh.
Well...that is still a problem because how do you divide 18 into other numbers? I mean really.
I studied the options for awhile. I tried to figure out how to add and subtract from 18 to get other percentages.
I noticed that the woman next to me was busily filling in her numbers--which blew my opinion that a man wrote the Bible study. But then I remembered that she was an accountant or something.
Great.
I didn't want to seem like the dummy in the class. No one else seemed to be having trouble. So I did what I normally do when I am subjected to a math question that is too hard for me.
I skip it.
Maybe next week we can talk about writing out our feelings or something. Yeah. That would work out well for me.
**UPDATE...my dad just emailed me and pointed out that 100 divided by 4 is 25, not 20. Baahahahahaha. I rest my case.
Also...when Jeff got home from work he said that he originally said 18 and then said, 'Well, actually it would be 16. 66 or something." I never heard him say that, so I apologize to my man.
