Dr. Pepper

I actually submitted an answer but it didn’t get posted.

I guess it was wrong. 🙁

If I understand your question correctly the table would look like this:

(The charges for Plan A are rounded to the hundreth of a cent.)

Amount of Seconds 	 Plan A 	Plan B	Plan C	Plan A saved over Plan B	Plan A saved over Plan C	Plan A saved over Plan C

1 	 0.02 	0.1	1	83%	98%	90%

2 	 0.03 	0.1	1	67%	97%	90%

3 	 0.05 	0.1	1	50%	95%	90%

4 	 0.07 	0.1	1	33%	93%	90%

5 	 0.08 	0.1	1	17%	92%	90%

6 	 0.10 	0.1	1	0%	90%	90%

7 	 0.12 	0.2	1	42%	88%	80%

8 	 0.13 	0.2	1	33%	87%	80%

9 	 0.15 	0.2	1	25%	85%	80%

10 	 0.17 	0.2	1	17%	83%	80%

11 	 0.18 	0.2	1	8%	82%	80%

12 	 0.20 	0.2	1	0%	80%	80%

13 	 0.22 	0.3	1	28%	78%	70%

14 	 0.23 	0.3	1	22%	77%	70%

15 	 0.25 	0.3	1	17%	75%	70%

16 	 0.27 	0.3	1	11%	73%	70%

17 	 0.28 	0.3	1	6%	72%	70%

18 	 0.30 	0.3	1	0%	70%	70%

19 	 0.32 	0.4	1	21%	68%	60%

20 	 0.33 	0.4	1	17%	67%	60%

21 	 0.35 	0.4	1	13%	65%	60%

22 	 0.37 	0.4	1	8%	63%	60%

23 	 0.38 	0.4	1	4%	62%	60%

24 	 0.40 	0.4	1	0%	60%	60%

25 	 0.42 	0.5	1	17%	58%	50%

26 	 0.43 	0.5	1	13%	57%	50%

27 	 0.45 	0.5	1	10%	55%	50%

28 	 0.47 	0.5	1	7%	53%	50%

29 	 0.48 	0.5	1	3%	52%	50%

30 	 0.50 	0.5	1	0%	50%	50%

31 	 0.52 	0.6	1	14%	48%	40%

32 	 0.53 	0.6	1	11%	47%	40%

33 	 0.55 	0.6	1	8%	45%	40%

34 	 0.57 	0.6	1	6%	43%	40%

35 	 0.58 	0.6	1	3%	42%	40%

36 	 0.60 	0.6	1	0%	40%	40%

37 	 0.62 	0.7	1	12%	38%	30%

38 	 0.63 	0.7	1	10%	37%	30%

39 	 0.65 	0.7	1	7%	35%	30%

40 	 0.67 	0.7	1	5%	33%	30%

41 	 0.68 	0.7	1	2%	32%	30%

42 	 0.70 	0.7	1	0%	30%	30%

43 	 0.72 	0.8	1	10%	28%	20%

44 	 0.73 	0.8	1	8%	27%	20%

45 	 0.75 	0.8	1	6%	25%	20%

46 	 0.77 	0.8	1	4%	23%	20%

47 	 0.78 	0.8	1	2%	22%	20%

48 	 0.80 	0.8	1	0%	20%	20%

49 	 0.82 	0.9	1	9%	18%	10%

50 	 0.83 	0.9	1	7%	17%	10%

51 	 0.85 	0.9	1	6%	15%	10%

52 	 0.87 	0.9	1	4%	13%	10%

53 	 0.88 	0.9	1	2%	12%	10%

54 	 0.90 	0.9	1	0%	10%	10%

55 	 0.92 	1	1	8%	8%	0%

56 	 0.93 	1	1	7%	7%	0%

57 	 0.95 	1	1	5%	5%	0%

58 	 0.97 	1	1	3%	3%	0%

59 	 0.98 	1	1	2%	2%	0%

60 	 1.00 	1	1	0%	0%	0%

for the first minute.

As the amount of seconds approaches infinity the percentage of the amount saved from one plan over another tends to 0.

Take a look at the last 30 seconds of the 10th minute:

Amount of Seconds 	 Plan A 	Plan B	Plan C	Plan A saved over Plan B	Plan A saved over Plan C	Plan A saved over Plan C

5,972 	 99.53 	99.6	100	0%	0%	0%

5,973 	 99.55 	99.6	100	0%	0%	0%

5,974 	 99.57 	99.6	100	0%	0%	0%

5,975 	 99.58 	99.6	100	0%	0%	0%

5,976 	 99.60 	99.6	100	0%	0%	0%

5,977 	 99.62 	99.7	100	0%	0%	0%

5,978 	 99.63 	99.7	100	0%	0%	0%

5,979 	 99.65 	99.7	100	0%	0%	0%

5,980 	 99.67 	99.7	100	0%	0%	0%

5,981 	 99.68 	99.7	100	0%	0%	0%

5,982 	 99.70 	99.7	100	0%	0%	0%

5,983 	 99.72 	99.8	100	0%	0%	0%

5,984 	 99.73 	99.8	100	0%	0%	0%

5,985 	 99.75 	99.8	100	0%	0%	0%

5,986 	 99.77 	99.8	100	0%	0%	0%

5,987 	 99.78 	99.8	100	0%	0%	0%

5,988 	 99.80 	99.8	100	0%	0%	0%

5,989 	 99.82 	99.9	100	0%	0%	0%

5,990 	 99.83 	99.9	100	0%	0%	0%

5,991 	 99.85 	99.9	100	0%	0%	0%

5,992 	 99.87 	99.9	100	0%	0%	0%

5,993 	 99.88 	99.9	100	0%	0%	0%

5,994 	 99.90 	99.9	100	0%	0%	0%

5,995 	 99.92 	100	100	0%	0%	0%

5,996 	 99.93 	100	100	0%	0%	0%

5,997 	 99.95 	100	100	0%	0%	0%

5,998 	 99.97 	100	100	0%	0%	0%

5,999 	 99.98 	100	100	0%	0%	0%

6,000 	 100.0 	100	100	0%	0%	0%

If there’s something I’m not understanding about your question please let me know.

(I’m not sure if I understand what you mean by “how much percent is the average billed savings”.)

I’m not sure if this was mentioned before (and I apologize if it was) but how about the seminaries teaching that it is not important to get married at 19 or 20?

I know this is going off on a tangent with regard to the age gap- but I think it is much harder for a guy to be a “good guy” than for a girl to be a “good girl”.

Waking for shachris at say 7:00 A.M. 6 days a week and say 8:00 A.M. on Shabbos to follow a yeshiva schedule is much harder than getting up for zman krias shma and going back to sleep until zman tfilla for those taking college courses in the late morning or afternoon.

Putting in a full day of serious learning is much harder than “doing Raizel Reit”.

In my opinion there are many girls who would not be “good guys” had they been an guy, yet they wouldn’t consider anyone who’s not a “good guy”.

Littlest Pepper is a girl.

Thanks for the Bracha!

Check out Wikipedia- (under “Beth Medrash Govoha”)

“An exception to the non-dating rule is that the student may continue to date a girl, if he started seeing her before the semester started.”

It also explains the “or else”-

“If a student is found to have broken the rule, the senior faculty will generally not attend the wedding (which is considered an honor), and there may be other disciplinary consequences, such as the suspension of student from Yeshiva indefinitely.”

OOPS-

Wikipedia says that the Freezer is over on Shiva Assar B’tamuz for those entering after Pesach.

Sorry for the confusion.

It’s me, the first Dr. Pepper (besides my father-in-law). “The Doc” only earned his Ph.D. 3-4 years ago. He asked me to take over his user-name for the time being, although he might take it back if he sees what I wrote about in the “Funny Shidduch Stories” thread.

Thanks for the Mazel Tov wishes, littlest Pepper turns 6 moths old today.

Oh no,

I don’t know if I’ll ever figure him out.

Thanks for the wishes, the baby is now almost six months old.

Did my husband post it somewhere? I’m curious to see what he wrote.

Thanks

Thanks Mr. Mod for the trouble you went through to edit the post. I apologize if some of the language was below par (maybe my clients/ patients are getting to me?).

For those who didn’t see it the long post is the second to last one on the previous page, right before the short one.

I just have some questions for you Mr. Mod;

1. Can you put the changes in bold so other readers can know where to use their imagination?

2. Did you find those edited parts funny?

3. Can the Mod Board use the original version when choosing the Post Of The Year?

Thanks again

I typed up a whole long post but t got lost somewhere. Could it have been too long?

Well anyway, hee’s the par referring to that story:

Soon my battery started to die so I asked him if he wants to call back on my friends private line and I asked my friend if I can talk in her room privately. I told him to call me at 555-1234.

Thanks everyone for the warm welcome.

A friend and I had the wedding of another friend one night and I had wanted to get a ride there with her. I like totally forgot that she was on a date and was going to have her date drop her off there after the date. I kept on calling her cell phone over and over again because she wouldn’t answer. I finally realized and was like OMG why didn’t she turn it off before hand?

She didn’t marry the guy, but I did!

(It’s a funny story how we figured it out 🙂 I’ll try to post it sometime.)

Actually there are three if you include my father-in-law.

If I had to guess one thing that was going through his head I’d guess brain-freeze. LOL

KOLALHAMAYIM

Why is someone who does so many aveiros sitting on a Bais Din giving lashes?

I agreed to go out with a girl but when I called her to plan a date she said that she has cousins who live out of town that she is going to for Shabbos so maybe next week. A close friend of mine who just got married and was always asking me to come for Shabbos lived in the same city as her cousins so I decided to try to go there for Shabbos.

My friend said that I could come over for the Shabbos day meal, but not sleep there, but he would find someone to put me up.

At the meal he told me of a place nearby to go for the date- it was a mall attached to a hotel, and on the bottom floor of the mall was a food court that empties out after 8:30 P.M. The spot he suggested was under an atrium with some trees behind an elevator that is as private as you can get in a mall. His wife also said that she knew my date from seminary.

I took the girl there but she didn’t feel comfortable in that spot (she didn’t like the music in the background) so we went to the hotel lobby and talked there.

The next day my friend called me and asked why I didn’t go to the spot he suggested. Apparently another friend of ours from high school was also in town for a date and was staying by him. (This guy was very nervous about his first date and didn’t want anyone to know about it, which is why my friend didn’t want me to sleep by him. This guy ate out for the Shabbos day meal so my friend had me over then.) His date was also in seminary together with my date and my friends wife so the charming young couple decided to send us both to the same place at the same time and then they would come check up on us to see how it was going.

The date did not end up working out for us and I highly suspect it didn’t work out for the other couple either. (My friend didn’t tell me which classmate it was but I assume he would have if it ended up working.)

One mistake I ended up making on the date- the girl made a box of home made cookies for me for the long ride home, but I got hungry on the date and ate it there. (I did share it with her though.)

This guy I know thought of a great idea for a date and spent a few weeks planning it and setting it up. Comes Chol Hamoed Succos and everything is ready except that he has no one to go out with. He calls some shadchamnim explaining that he really needs a date quickly. Finally he gets one.

He takes the girl to an open park where they allow visitors to drive and park on the grass. He takes her for a walk then says, “Are you hungry? I brought bagels and cream cheese, let’s go have a picnic”. She says that it’s a great idea. As they approach the car he says, “Oh, but it’s Succos, what should I do?”.

“OMG, I didn’t think of that!”

“Good thing I did” he exclaimed.

He then popped open the trunk and out jumps a portable succah, unfolding by itself and landing right in front of them. He then unfolded two golf chairs (they each had armrests and a pocket for drinks), he throws on the sechach and they had their picnic.

(They did not marry each other.)

ames-

Had I considered it a privilege to go out with her in the first place I would have behaved differently. Do you actually think that the dates with my wife went the same way?

Jax-

I’m still waiting for some of yours.

ames-

I didn’t take her over the bridge, just to a park near the bridge (does that scare you?). Crossing a bridge on a date with me was a privilege that had to be earned and not a given. My wife earned that privilege on all dates except for one (she was bragging that she knew the order of the 3 East River Bridges- Brooklyn, Manhattan and Williamsburgh- but then admitted that she couldn’t tell them apart and used the Roshei Teivos of her favorite car, B-M-W, to remember the order).

By the way- after what the girl did on the second (and last) date, she got a call on her cell phone and answered it, I knew it couldn’t be you.

A classmate of mine from an engineering class proposed to his wife on a bridge. He knew that if she is scared she’d be more likely to say what he wants to hear. The first one to wish them Mazel Tov was they guy in the toll booth (he thought he would get out of paying).

Can you let me know when I can give a shot at it?

I’m waiting very patiently.

Thanks

(Is it just me or is the formatting messed up in this thread?)

Can you turn any of them over?

One of my brothers told me that when guys from his yeshiva would take Brooklyn girls to Manhattan on a date they would take the [Brooklyn Battery] tunnel on the way there but use one of the bridges on the way back (to save $3.50 at that time) if they knew they were going to say no. I guess if the girls knew about this it would give them a heads up that the royal “D” is about to come.

This story was also going around his yeshiva but no one knew who it happened to (or if it is true at all).

Guy is talking and quotes the Yated. Girl asks, “How are you able to read the Yated if you’re supposed to be in the Beis Medrash whenever you have a free second, and you can’t bring the Yated into the bathroom?”

Guy answers, “When I go out with girls like you I’m back earlier than expected. I’m afraid to show my face in the Beis Medrash, so I go to my room. There are no seforim in my room since I’m supposed to be in the Beis Medrash whenever I have a free second. So I read the Yated…”

anonymisss-

You can’t say I didn’t try!

ames-

Sure, that’s why I took her out again.

Jax-

Thanks, now let’s hear some of yours.

Mayan_Dvash-

Some of these thing just can’t be made up.

(Part of the reason why I didn’t mention the pressure tactics or what happened on the second, and last, date was that then it would have been too hard to believe!)

areivimzehlazeh-

Sure, send them my way.

squeak-

For her sake I sincerely hope she did.

Not sure where this fits into the story but on one of the dates she told me that her father will not allow Internet access into the house and her boss blocks it at work. Every so often she asks her boss to unblock it so she can download updates for the programs she uses. While the block is lifted she quickly checks onlysimchas to see which guys she dated are engaged.

Some time after I dated her some guy from yeshiva tried setting me up with her. He said he knew the family very well since when a family member of his (from the same city as her) was sick and he went to be with them, her father let him hang out there to keep up with his college work. According to this guy, the family had 3 computers with cable Internet connection. (This was back in 2001 when, in general, having “Internet” meant using dial-up for AOL.)

What if he smokes but doesn’t inhale?

moish01- this story is for you.

Getting back to the pressure thing-

This story goes back to early 2001.

The shadchan is one of the most dreaded shadchanim (if the not the most) amongst my friends. Just the sight of her number on the caller ID sent terror into the toughest guys. (To her credit, according to my wife, most girls consider her a savior.)

One particular girl got my name from somewhere and put this shadchan to work on getting me to go out with her. I never answered when she called so the shadchan called my parents and eventually resorted to other methods of pressure (which is not the scope of this thread). At one point I had agreed to go out with a different girl and I thought that the pressure would end. But no! The shadchan told the girl and she actually flew out to where my date lived while I was there. The shadchan called my parents to let me know that she’ll be on standby just in case it doesn’t work out. (My date didn’t work out and I wasn’t about to take her out so she just flew home.)

About two months later I buckled under the pressure and agreed to go out. (Some friends in yeshiva begged me just to get the shadchan off their backs.) The shadchan calls back and says that the girl wants to go out on Sunday, April 29th 2001.

I told the shadchan that I simply can’t go out on that day since I have a Computer Science project due midnight that night and I was planning on doing it on Sunday. But the shadchan informed me that since the girl is flying in for the date she gets to decide when we go out. And besides, she already booked the ticket and it will cost $25 to change.

So I planned the nerdiest date in the hopes that she will say NO.

Comes April 29th, I pick her up and she says “so, where are you taking me?”. I bit my tongue and said with a straight face “Well today the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge turns 62 so I thought we’d go to Francis Lewis Park at the base of the bridge and celebrate”.

“Sounds good I love bridges.”

Oh no, what do I do? It’s too late to apply for a change of venue (is that what lawyers call it?).

We get off The Van Wyck Expressway and she says “Yippee, a suspension bridge! I love suspension bridges”. So I bring out the cake and soda and apologize for not having a cake with 62 candles which she said was fine. I then pointed out how bad I felt for the bridge, pointing at all the cars crossing her and not a single one stops to show some gratitude by wishing her a happy birthday. (She sympathised with the bridge.)

She then started asking all kinds of questions about the bridge and her history which I made sure to give long detailed answers to. (There was a massive reconstruction project that was to start in the next few months and I learned all about it in a engineering class I was taking.)

She then asked me what other bridges were in the area so I took her to a lookout where we saw the George Washington Bridge and I told her that about a mile and a half to the east is the Throgs Neck Bridge and she asked if we could walk there. (We did.)

After the date, when I dropped her off at the place she was staying, she said “Thank you so much, I had such a good time. I was never so close to a suspension bridge before, I only hear about them in stories from my uncle, they don’t have any where I live.”

Oh well, at least I tried.

squeak,

You still don’t know which sister it was.

Just kidding, sorry if the wording was confusing. I don’t know who the girl is so I made up the name Mindy. It was her mother that made the comment not my mother. Mindy repeated it at a Shabbos Seudah she was spending with my family.