On Sunday the sounds of a distracted Hemingway woke me. Thump, thump, thump on the keys and then a break. Thump, thump, thump. Consciousness clarified that it was Noah in his room above me, typing away.
Day 2 of willow basket weaving at the Folk Museum awaited so I mosied down to get some breakfast and, like a virtuous and credit-crunched family woman, pack my leftover squash soup for lunch. The soup flask was easy enough to find, PTB (that's Praise to Buddha in case you aren't familiar with the abbreviation) , but I was surprised at its contents.
Even while Octavia rejoiced at the recovery of the lost markers she'd been moaning about all week, Hemingway's ghost tottered down the stairs to join us with the creative endeavour in hand.
The last question, especially, tickled my fancy as there are so many ways to read the parenthetical statement:
A bank has 9,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000£. IF there were a roberey and 2,000,000 were stolen, how much would be left? (From the managers point of view)
I couldn't bring myself to work with those kind of numbers but I was interested to wonder whether Noah was trying to steer us away from thinking of our own savings being stolen, or if he meant how much did the manager think he'd lose personally after the security breech was reported? Or maybe Noah was imagining being the so-called Rober and how much money he might have if he robed 2,000,000,000? In any case, an interesting hard maths problem considering the constant news on the radio about money, lost money, stolen money, who ended up with the money, and of course, bank managers.... This all before he listened to Go For It on Sunday and heard that some bank managers had been very naughty.
The world is full of little surprises.
A bank has 9,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000£. IF there were a roberey and 2,000,000 were stolen, how much would be left? (From the managers point of view)
I couldn't bring myself to work with those kind of numbers but I was interested to wonder whether Noah was trying to steer us away from thinking of our own savings being stolen, or if he meant how much did the manager think he'd lose personally after the security breech was reported? Or maybe Noah was imagining being the so-called Rober and how much money he might have if he robed 2,000,000,000? In any case, an interesting hard maths problem considering the constant news on the radio about money, lost money, stolen money, who ended up with the money, and of course, bank managers.... This all before he listened to Go For It on Sunday and heard that some bank managers had been very naughty.
The world is full of little surprises.
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Is he channeling his inner Alex P. Keaton?
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