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The guy didn’t either remember at first, being a vegetarian was a small detail she mentioned on the phone once.
He only realized when he was trying to figure out what would have made her act like that in front of him and his family (especially if she honestly thought she was going to marry him). In general there is nothing wrong with being seen by your date and his family while eating with friends.
If anyone out there knows her would you mind letting us know her side of the story?
A little background first-
The guy is the oldest child of an out of town family but was learning in a local yeshiva and dating a local girl. He likes the girl and her family but felt that she was not mature enough to get married (she was 19 or 20 at the time but, according to him, acted a couple of years younger).
Before the next date he told the shadchan that he was going home for bain hazimanim but would try to plan something for the interim if applicable. For the date he asked her if she would like to go to a park and have a picnic. She liked the idea but mentioned that she is a vegetarian so he should please bring bagels and cream cheese.
When he arrived home his family was all excited, they knew it “was going to happen” and decided to go to New York to buy new clothing for everyone for the upcoming wedding. He chose not to tell her that he was coming in to town since he didn’t know if he’d be able to fit her into his schedule and he wasn’t about to take her out in the family van.
After a tiring day of driving around Brooklyn and shopping he decided to take his family to Kosher Delight for supper.
Guess who’s eating a hot dog there with her friends?
The guy leads his family in and they start oooing and aaahing as they never saw any Kosher restaurant that size before (did I mention that they are from out of town?). The girl notices the guy, starts to shriek and runs towards the exit. The guy was mortified but pretends he doesn’t know her and walks right by her towards the counter. He turns around to look for his family only to see that they are still standing in front of the door looking all around- still amazed at the size of the place. The poor girl was in tears by that time and could not get by his bewildered family to make her escape.
She later called the shadchan and asked her to ask the guy if she can call and apologize. She did apologize for making a scene but she did not explain the vegetarian thing.
(They are both married now but to other people.)
Is this it?
Does anyone remember if there is a thread for “Shidduch Horror Stories” or should I just post it here?
I have the original TI-89 that came out in late 1998- early 1999.
The original TI-92 which came out in the mid 90s was the first calculator that was capable of performing symbolic calculations (algebraic manipulations, symbolic differentiation/ integration, homogeneous first and second order differential equations…) as opposed to numeric approximations (like the TI-80 through TI-86). The TI-92 was not allowed to be used on many standardized exams (like the SATs) and many professors did not allow their usage in class since the QWERTY keyboard gave it more of a computer status than that of a calculator.
When the TI-89 came out TI released the TI-92 PLUS which looked like the TI-92 but had the same software as the TI-89.
TI skipped from TI-86 to TI-89 because at that time they claimed that the TI-89 would be the last calculator released in the TI-8X series since it has the capability of upgrading the software and downloading programs.
I lost touch with graphing calculators a few years ago (although I still have mine and use them from time to time). I think the version that I have has been discontinued for the TI-89 Titanium and TI added the TI-84 to the TI-8X family although I’m not sure what they do better/different than the rest of the family.
Oy, there’s so much more to write about graphing calculators.
Maybe later.
I was actually kind of relieved that it took so long- it gave me something to look forward to.
You had to be sitting through that class to understand…
(It was also probably the first and only time that I was able to solve a problem faster than my good old TI-89.)
I typed the whole long equation (all 26 monomials) into my TI-89 during one particularly boring class and it took a considerable amount of time to get the correct answer of 0. It seems as if the calculator actually multiplied out until “w”.
A little Algebra-
Expand the following-
(x-a)*(x-b)*(x-c)*…*(x-z)
ZachKessin-
Once the Julian Calendar was dropped the date for Birchas Hachama was no longer constant. (It is constant from 1900 – 2100 but will be on April 9th begining 2100 as April 8th 2121 will be a Tuesday.)
an open book-
I also forgot about it until today. When it comes out during the week we celebrate at work (pizza pies or something similar). Last year my mother-in-law made a custard pie and sent for Friday night dessert. But this year nothing.
We finally realized it after the seudah and decided to celebrate it though my wife gave strict orders to the kids not to tell any of their friends that we celebrated it.
How are you all celebrating PI day (3/14) today?
ZachKessin-
That’s correct, on the Julian Calendar the date is constant (April 5th), but the vast majority of the world switched to the Gregorian Calendar in 1582.
aussieboy-
A solar year is approximately 365.25 days, so every fourth year the fraction will add up to an extra day (which is why we have leap years). Therefore in the beginning of the fifth year the sun will be in the same location as it was in the beginning of the first year.
(Let’s assume that the beginning of the first year was exactly at sunrise, the beginning of the second year will be at midday, the beginning of the third year will be at sunset, the beginning of the fourth year will be at midnight and the beginning of the fifth year will be at sunrise…)
Since there are 7 days in a week and the LCM of 4 and 7 is 28, it will take 28 years until the sun is in the exact same place in the sky on the same day of the week at the beginning of the year.
After 2100 Birchas Hachama will no longer be on April 8th (it will still be on a Wednesday though (the first one being April 9th, 2121)) because 2100 is not a leap year as far as the Gregorian Calendar is concerned but is according to Halacha. (From 1800 to 1900 it was always on April 7th.)
Here’s an old (but good) one.
Three people of equal intelligence are standing one behind another all facing forward.
A person nearby has five hats, three red and two white. The three people close their eyes while the other person randomly puts a hat on each of them. When they open their eyes they can not see what color hat they are wearing but the person in back can see what color hat the other two are wearing and the person in the middle can see what color hat the person in front is wearing. The person in front can not see what color hat anyone is wearing. The three people are unable to see the two remaining hats.
When the person in back was asked what color hat he was wearing he looked at the two people in front of him and said, “I don’t know”. When the middle person was asked what color hat he was wearing he looked at the person in front of him and said, “I don’t know”. Finally the person in front said, “I know what color hat I’m wearing”.
What color hat was he wearing and how did he know?
aussieboy-
Thanks for your hint- I was actually looking at the prime factorization, (2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2*3*3*3*5*61843), and did not notice that it contains each of the numbers 0 – 9.
After you mentioned that each of the digits are there (and a couple of beers) it was a dead giveaway.
They are in alphabetical order.
Happy Purim to everyone!
You have a set of 20 encyclopedias standing in order on a bookshelf each one containing 100 pages (200 sides but 100 pages). A bookworm eats from the first page of the first volume to the last page of the last volume inclusive.
How many pages did the bookworm eat through?
Answer:
If they are lined up in order then the first page of the first volume is adjacent to the last page of the second volume. The last page of the last volume is adjacent to the first page of the second to last volume. (Look at a set of books on a shelf if you don’t see this.)
1 page from the first volume, one page from the last volume and 100 pages from each of the 18 volumes in between => 1 + 100*18 + 1 = 1802.
You have a set of 20 encyclopedias standing in order on a bookshelf each one containing 100 pages (200 sides but 100 pages). A bookworm eats from the first page of the first volume to the last page of the last volume inclusive.
How many pages did the bookworm eat through?
Hi MOD 39,
underground?
The answer I was looking for by the cake riddle was to find the center of the rectangle and square and have the cut go through the center of each.
You have a rectangular pan of cake and someone cut out a random square somewhere on the cake (not in the middle).
Using one cut how can you split the cake exactly in half?
I can only try- Can you let me know how to align columns?
Let me try this again.
# => Number of Hearts left in the deck.
# of ways => Number of way that that amount of Hearts can be chosen from the 32 that are removed.
Prob => Probability of picking a Heart from the 20 left.
(This is done using Excel)
# # of ways Prob. # of ways * Probability
0 15,380,937 0.65 0.0000000793494867
1 799,808,724 0.6 0.0000038087753615
2 16,529,380,296 0.55 0.0000721551332366
3 181,823,183,256 0.5 0.0007215513323662
4 1,198,380,071,460 0.45 0.0042801113124451
5 5,033,196,300,132 0.4 0.0159790822331284
6 13,938,082,061,904 0.35 0.0387185454110420
7 25,885,009,543,536 0.3 0.0616336028992096
8 32,356,261,929,420 0.25 0.0642016696866767
9 26,963,551,607,850 0.2 0.0428011131244512
10 14,592,039,693,660 0.15 0.0173722165034537
11 4,864,013,231,220 0.1 0.0038604925563231
12 896,002,437,330 0.05 0.0003555716828192
13 68,923,264,410 0 –
Total 125,994,627,894,135 0.2500000000000000
Here are the formulas used: (Starting from Cell A1)
# # of ways Prob. # of ways * Probability
0 =COMBIN(13,13-A2)*COMBIN(39,7+A2) =(13-A2)/20 =(B2/$B$16)*C2
1 =COMBIN(13,13-A3)*COMBIN(39,7+A3) =(13-A3)/20 =(B3/$B$16)*C3
2 =COMBIN(13,13-A4)*COMBIN(39,7+A4) =(13-A4)/20 =(B4/$B$16)*C4
3 =COMBIN(13,13-A5)*COMBIN(39,7+A5) =(13-A5)/20 =(B5/$B$16)*C5
4 =COMBIN(13,13-A6)*COMBIN(39,7+A6) =(13-A6)/20 =(B6/$B$16)*C6
5 =COMBIN(13,13-A7)*COMBIN(39,7+A7) =(13-A7)/20 =(B7/$B$16)*C7
6 =COMBIN(13,13-A8)*COMBIN(39,7+A8) =(13-A8)/20 =(B8/$B$16)*C8
7 =COMBIN(13,13-A9)*COMBIN(39,7+A9) =(13-A9)/20 =(B9/$B$16)*C9
8 =COMBIN(13,13-A10)*COMBIN(39,7+A10) =(13-A10)/20 =(B10/$B$16)*C10
9 =COMBIN(13,13-A11)*COMBIN(39,7+A11) =(13-A11)/20 =(B11/$B$16)*C11
10 =COMBIN(13,13-A12)*COMBIN(39,7+A12) =(13-A12)/20 =(B12/$B$16)*C12
11 =COMBIN(13,13-A13)*COMBIN(39,7+A13) =(13-A13)/20 =(B13/$B$16)*C13
12 =COMBIN(13,13-A14)*COMBIN(39,7+A14) =(13-A14)/20 =(B14/$B$16)*C14
13 =COMBIN(13,13-A15)*COMBIN(39,7+A15) =(13-A15)/20 =(B15/$B$16)*C15
14 =SUM(B2:B15) =SUM(D2:D15)
I can only try-
I hope this comes out looking decent.
# => Number of Hearts left in the deck.
# of ways => Number of way that that amount of Hearts can be chosen from the 32 that are removed.
Prob => Probability of picking a Heart from the 20 left.
(This is done using Excel)
# # of ways Prob. # of ways * Probability
0 15,380,937 0.65 0.0000000793494867
1 799,808,724 0.6 0.0000038087753615
2 16,529,380,296 0.55 0.0000721551332366
3 181,823,183,256 0.5 0.0007215513323662
4 1,198,380,071,460 0.45 0.0042801113124451
5 5,033,196,300,132 0.4 0.0159790822331284
6 13,938,082,061,904 0.35 0.0387185454110420
7 25,885,009,543,536 0.3 0.0616336028992096
8 32,356,261,929,420 0.25 0.0642016696866767
9 26,963,551,607,850 0.2 0.0428011131244512
10 14,592,039,693,660 0.15 0.0173722165034537
11 4,864,013,231,220 0.1 0.0038604925563231
12 896,002,437,330 0.05 0.0003555716828192
13 68,923,264,410 0 –
Total 125,994,627,894,135 0.2500000000000000
Here are the formulas used: (Starting from Cell A1)
# # of ways Probability # of ways * Probability
0 =COMBIN(13,13-A2)*COMBIN(39,7+A2) =(13-A2)/20 =(B2/$B$16)*C2
1 =COMBIN(13,13-A3)*COMBIN(39,7+A3) =(13-A3)/20 =(B3/$B$16)*C3
2 =COMBIN(13,13-A4)*COMBIN(39,7+A4) =(13-A4)/20 =(B4/$B$16)*C4
3 =COMBIN(13,13-A5)*COMBIN(39,7+A5) =(13-A5)/20 =(B5/$B$16)*C5
4 =COMBIN(13,13-A6)*COMBIN(39,7+A6) =(13-A6)/20 =(B6/$B$16)*C6
5 =COMBIN(13,13-A7)*COMBIN(39,7+A7) =(13-A7)/20 =(B7/$B$16)*C7
6 =COMBIN(13,13-A8)*COMBIN(39,7+A8) =(13-A8)/20 =(B8/$B$16)*C8
7 =COMBIN(13,13-A9)*COMBIN(39,7+A9) =(13-A9)/20 =(B9/$B$16)*C9
8 =COMBIN(13,13-A10)*COMBIN(39,7+A10) =(13-A10)/20 =(B10/$B$16)*C10
9 =COMBIN(13,13-A11)*COMBIN(39,7+A11) =(13-A11)/20 =(B11/$B$16)*C11
10 =COMBIN(13,13-A12)*COMBIN(39,7+A12) =(13-A12)/20 =(B12/$B$16)*C12
11 =COMBIN(13,13-A13)*COMBIN(39,7+A13) =(13-A13)/20 =(B13/$B$16)*C13
12 =COMBIN(13,13-A14)*COMBIN(39,7+A14) =(13-A14)/20 =(B14/$B$16)*C14
13 =COMBIN(13,13-A15)*COMBIN(39,7+A15) =(13-A15)/20 =(B15/$B$16)*C15
14 =SUM(B2:B15) =SUM(D2:D15)
If you are sending it with a trusted courier then just lock the key onto the shackle and let your friend break it off when he receives it. (He’ll be able to tell if it was tampered with or not.)
If not- send the box with one lock, have your friend attach another lock (while keeping the key to himself) and send the box back to you.
Now you can remove the lock you put on originally and send the box back with only the lock that he put on.
Joseph-
He was not a Kohein, nor was he divorced. He only said it to be excused from dating her.
I did not believe the story at first until he said who the Shadchan was.
22OldGold-
There was a story about 8 – 10 years ago about a step- brother and step- sister (I think from Monsey) who married each other, but I don’t think there was a shadchan involved.
I can only try
Let me know when you’re ready for the answer (or a hint) to ??”? ?”? ?”? ???”?.
The Big One
I can only try
Getting back to your posts from two weeks ago, my wife was teasing me that if I keep pulling my pants up higher and higher while my sense of humor keeps getting worse and worse that people will start thinking I’m a grandfather. Then she saw those posts and couldn’t stop laughing.
This baby is our fourth Bli Ayin Hara.
By the way- her older siblings are crazy over her.
There was one subliminal message hidden in the post though.
When my previous child, a son, was born I had told a friend that I had a “baby”. He spread the word that we had a girl. He later said that when one has a boy they say that they had a boy, but when one has a girl they say that they had a baby.
I was curious to see if anyone would pick up that I didn’t specify the gender and figure out that we had a girl.
Michal bas Avraham-
Your story reminds me of one I heard from some one who I was in yeshiva with (I don’t believe it but you never know.)
The shadchan tells him to meet the girl in a certain hotel or park (apparently it’s done like this in Eretz Yisroel, no first phone call- everything arranged by the shadchan). He’s there at the designated time and place but the only other person nearby is a lady with a shaitel. After a few minutes she says to him,
“Are you Avraham?”
“Yes”,
“Well I’m Sarah”.
His mouth drops open and she says, “The shadchan didn’t tell you I’m divorced?”
He answered, “Well I guess she didn’t tell you I’m a Kohen”!
The End
Here’s another one from him which I also don’t believe;
After meeting her parents he takes her to the car and opens the door for her. She reaches in, opens the back button, opens the back door and gets in. He shrugged his shoulders gets in the drivers seat and starts driving. He tries to talk to her but she doesn’t answer. He turns around to see what she is doing- she had found some seforim he left in the back and started learning some Chumash. He went around the block and brought her right home.
This one I do believe-
I met him a few years later and he says, “Guess what Pepper?”
“What?”
“I finally got married!”
Joseph-
I think AXA Equitable refers to that product as YRT, Yearly Renewable Term.
But what do I know? I’m just the 800 lb. gorilla in the room.
ames-
Please don’t confuse me with the drink. The drink is Dr Pepper (without the period).
areivimzehlazeh- Was that meant for “The Riddle Thread…”?
kapusta, outoftowner, oomis1105- I left out details which I felt were not important.
She did not do any research on this person before she went out with him. Her intentions were to do the research after the first date if there was a possibility of a second date which she eventually felt there was not. I don’t think it’s far fetched that after one year the only memory of him was a diary entry.
As far as her parents are concerned- she is one of the youngest of a large family and when the name came up they thought it sounded familiar but weren’t sure if it was a mere suggestion for her or any of her older sisters, or if any of them actually went out with him (they don’t keep records).
I doubt she’s the only one that keeps notes about her dates, I’ve heard of others who also do. (I personally never did.)
The girl happens to still be single but I have no idea about the guy.
Any other questions?
ames-
“and jumped through it”, when he jumped through it was he going from inside to outside or from outside to inside?
This happened to the sister of someone I went out with.
So the guy and girl are out on a date and quickly run out of things to talk about. They get up to walk around and he asks her if she was ever here before. She remembers being brought there a year before by a guy but couldn’t remember any details. He said he once brought a girl there but couldn’t remember who.
Eventually they realized that they had gone out with each other the previous year and to the same exact place. They spent the rest of the date trying to remember who said no. (They couldn’t figure it out until she got home and checked her notes, buy at least they had something to talk about.)
Sadly it didn’t work out. Maybe the third time around it will.
Here’s one but it’s long and might be hard to follow. It’s also one of those stories where you have to see it in action to fully appreciate it.
Two guys (both are engaged)- let’s call them Reuven and Shimon. Reuven being a guy that I know from high school and Shimon being a guy who was at that time my roommate in yeshiva.
So I’m schmoozing with Shimon and he casually asks me where I went to high school. When I told him he asks me if I know Reuven. I said, “sure where do you know him from?” but he dodged the question.
At Maariv that night I saw Reuven who tells me that he’s engaged to a local girl so he stopped by to visit. During the course of the conversation he asked me if I know Shimon. I knew something fishy was going on so I said “sure he’s my roommate come let me introduce you to him”. His face turned red and he begged me not to. He later explained that he went out with his kallah and just wanted to see “who she picked instead”.
Later that night Reuven stopped by my room and introduced himself to my roommates to see who Shimon was.
It was hilarious listening to the two of them talk, trying to figure out if the other one knew the whole story. At the end Shimon left convinced that Reuven didn’t know. As soon as he left Reuven picked up his phone to tell his Kallah who he just met…
Some posters have written that they are reluctant to share some funny stories since then they will reveal their identity.
Please, we all like a good laugh, just say it happened to someone you know.
Here’s one that happened to someone I know (it really wasn’t me).
This friend of mine borrowed his brothers car for the date and his brother warned him that if anything happens to the car, even if it’s not his fault, he’s in big trouble. When he was returning to the car after the date he thought he saw a few teenagers opening the doors and getting in. He started running and screaming, “don’t you dear touch my car”. The boys backed off terrified until he realized that his brothers car was a few cars ahead.
He then went back to the bewildered girl and apologized. She said it was O.K. and now she has a funny story to tell her friends.
I highly doubt this story is true but I heard it from one of the girls I took to the top of the Marriott Marquis, who claimed it happened to one of her friends.
While her friend was also at the top of the Marriott Marquis she felt the need to remove her shoes to let her feet “air out”. Apparently she didn’t realize that the bar revolves and she had to wait 45 minutes or so until she met up with her shoes again.
If it happened to you and you’re reading this please let us know.
Thanks
SJSinNYC
A similar story happened to two friends of mine when we were in yeshiva in Israel.
Both were Dovid and both had dates on the same night through the same shadchan.
I’ll never understand why, but the shadchan set up both dates to meet at the same place in the same hotel. A few minutes in one Dovid realized he was dating the wrong person and went to find the other Dovid (and his date) so they could switch.
Another similar story- one shadchan thought she had a great idea for a guy I knew from yeshiva and wanted to speak it over with another shadchan before she suggested it. The second shadchan thought she was talking about another guy and decided to call him and suggest it before the first one did (since it was such a good idea). The second guy ended up getting engaged to her.
I heard this from a lady that we were introduced to at the wedding of a friend. As far fetched as it sounds I do believe it but you can decide for yourself to believe it or not.
The date took place in downtown Baltimore by the Harbor. The girl realized right away that it wasn’t going to happen but apparently her date did not.
They stopped at a street vendor and he bought her a big yellow helium balloon. Not wanting to offend him and not wanting to have to hold it the whole time, she tied it to her hand and thanked him (while praying that she wouldn’t meet any friends).
While they were walking around and talking she felt him moving uncomfortably close to her and she moved over a few inches. After a couple more times that this happened she lost her balance and fell into the water (she said there were no gates there at the time).
Luckily there was a water taxi right there and she was rescued. For the rest of the date he was complimenting himself on how smart he was for buying her a yellow balloon so that if she fell into the water it would be easy to spot her.
They did not marry each other.
The Big One-
My wife can’t stop laughing at your post. What did I say that made you think I am older than I really am?
This didn’t happen to me but I know the person who it happened to and I assure you it’s not a made up legend.
The guy is driving the girl in a car with a steering wheel on the wrong side (a British car) when the transmission blows and he can’t do more that 25 M.P.H. Many drivers that pass feel the need to honk and make obscene gestures at the person they think is the driver.
The girl is about to lose it but the guy keeps reassuring her that they are honking because they think know her and they are exerting one finger to let her know that she is number 1.
Eventually she lost her cool and started screaming back and letting everyone know that she was not the driver…
For the record they did not get married. (Or go out again.)
I can only try
That’s correct, no matter how many cards are removed (up to 51 and assumning that it is not known which cards are removed) the probability of the picking a heart will be 1/4. Let’s see you prove it for where 32 cards are removed.
(Hint- there are 125,994,627,894,135 different ways that 32 cards can be chosen from a deck of 52 where order doesn’t make a difference. Hope this helps!)
Back in the summer of ’89 the camp I was in took us to a minor league base ball game that was stopped for 45 minutes due to rain. After the game continued the ushers let us all go down to (the now vacant) front row seats.
Later on in the game the catcher struck out and disputed the call with the umpire. The umpire kept quiet while the catcher was using vulgar language and making obscene gestures until he was ejected from the game. Unfortunately, to us young campers, the catcher was our hero.
One of the Rabeim knew he had to make a deep impression on us quick- I’ll never forget his Moshul the next day. “Do you know why the team picked him to be the catcher?, Because the catcher sits behind a cage (his mask) and that player is an animal who needs to be kept behind a cage at all times!”
It’s now almost 20 years later, and when I hear that players name mentioned I don’t think of his major league career or his minor league career, I think of him as animal who needs to be kept behind a cage.
Yes ames you are correct, the answer is 1/4.
Here’s how I solved the problem when I had it on an exam.
There are 1,326 unique ways to choose 2 cards from a standard 52 card deck. (52 x 51 / 2 = 1,326. We divide by two since order doesn’t matter i.e. a seven of spades and a king of clubs is the same group as a king of clubs and seven of spades.)
Of the 1,326 possibilities 78 include 2 hearts (13 * 12 / 2= 78), 507 include one heart and one non-heart ( 2 * (13 * 39 / 2) = 507) and 741 consist of two non-hearts (39 * 38 / 2 = 741). (Please note that 78 + 507 + 741 = 1,326.)
If two hearts are missing from the deck the probability of picking a heart is 11/50.
If one heart is missing from the deck the probability of picking a heart is 12/50.
If no hearts are missing from the deck the probability of picking a heart is 13/50.
So the probability of two hearts missing (78/1,326) x the probability of picking a heart (11/50) = (78/1,326)*(11/50).
Summing up the probabilities from all three scenarios gives us (78/1,326)*(11/50) + (507/1,326)*(12/50) + (741/1,326)*(13/50) = 1/4.
Special for valentines day;
You have a regular deck of 52 cards with two cards missing (you don’t know which 2).
A card is selected at random, what is the probability that the suit of the card picked is Hearts?
gleeg-
The distance traveled can not be a negative number. If the question was how much higher is the ball when it stops bouncing then -8 would be correct.
This might not count as a Shidduch story since my friend and his wife were engaged at the time but it definitely messed up someone else’s proposal.
This friend goes out to a fancy restaurant to eat with his (at the time) kallah and asks for a table for two. The waiter asks him if his name is Dovid to which he responds, “Yes, Why?”, the waiter just winked at him and said, “Don’t worry everything has been taken care of”.
After they were done eating the waiter asked if they were ready for dessert. A minute later the waiter gave her a cake that said “Will you marry me?”.
They all had a good laugh and he was very thankful it didn’t happen on their first date.
While I was driving back this really nice girl after a date I thought I was going through a yellow light and only realized it must have been red when the flash from the camera lit up the night. I tried to disregard it but she said, “Don’t worry, just send me a copy of the picture and I’ll pay for half of it”. (It never came.)
On a subsequent date we were walking in a park and stopped by an observation point to look at the scenery. Out of the corner of my eye I saw some blond hair walking away and, assuming it was her, started walking next to her. When I started to make conversation about the scenery she said something that the moderators wouldn’t approve of (it had something to do with her lineage). I looked down and it was not her. It was so embarrassing.
I returned to the lookout and there she was standing next to another guy (who was also about 12 inches taller than her and wearing a black suit jacket) telling him about a different time she was in the area. You should have seen the look on her face when she saw me and realized that she was talking to someone else. She apologized and said that, due to the difference in height, when she stood next to me she could only see my arm and shoulder. I assured her not to worry since it could happen to anyone. (I never told her what happened to me just one minute earlier.)
A friend and I planned to switch cars while we were on dates but it didn’t work out.
We both had dates from the same far away city (date # 1 for them, #5 for us), and the girls lived within a block of each other. The plan was that I would rent a standard car and he was going to rent a luxury car. We would park the cars in the same garage, go to the same hotel (but to lounges on different floors) and ask to be “excused” at the same time to take care of business where we would swap receipts. Mt friend backed out at the end since he was reluctant to rent a luxury car for a first date.
That was their first and last date while we ended up getting married.
When I told my wife the plan she said it would have been a waste since neither she or her friend would have noticed. Compared to what her parents drive, any vehicle (even a Dodge Stratus) is considered a luxury vehicle and her friends parents are unable to drive and do not have a car.
I got this idea from a friend of mine (he eventually married the girl he was dating at the time), I started talking in a monotone for 30 minutes about the history of the theorem, the different conjectures used to prove the theorem as well as using my fingers to draw the 3D graphs used to prove the theorem (in the hotel lobby). I still crack up when I think about the scene- some guy in a hat, jacket and tie using both his hands to plot x, y and z points on an imaginary 3D grid, while the girl sitting across from him is nodding reassuringly that she understands everything he is saying.
I couldn’t argue with that.
A few minutes into our first date we sat down on a park bench to drink sodas. I opened mine and said, “look I won a free soda”. “No”, She exclaimed, “we won a free soda”.
moish01- The soda with the same name as me is Dr Pepper (not Dr. since it’s not a real doctor), I hope this removes any confusion.
teen- The problem says “What is the total vertical distance the ball will eventually travel?” not “What is the total vertical distance traveled by the ball when it comes to a complete stop?”. The ball will never come to a complete stop but the vertical distance travelled will eventually reach a limit as the amount of time elapsed approaches infinity, what is this limit?
The answer is 56 feet.
I can only try- 24 feet is the upward distance, multiply that by two for the distance it travelled down each time it bounced up plus the original 8 foot drop gives the correct answer of 56 feet.
I can only try- It’s great to be back here. The family is great thanks for asking. This morning I saw the baby kicking her feet while deep in concentration- it was the cutest thing- I thought she was trying to figure out where her center of gravity was so she could try to roll over. My wife figured out exactly what she was doing and made me change the diaper…
It’s really touching to see that I was missed. I’m afraid to log on at home when I should be helping my wife and at work our department was assigned some challenging projects so I’m a little reluctant to log on over there (I’m still trying to explain to facilities why I had 3,121 coconuts, 4 colleagues and a monkey in my 5′ X 7′ cubicle…).
Hopefully we should be finished the projects by early July and I’ll be able to return to this thread full time.
A boy drops a rubber ball from a height of 8 feet above a concrete floor. Each time the ball hits the ground it bounces up 75% of its previous maximum height (it reaches 6 feet on its first bounce, 4.5 feet on the second bounce…). What is the total vertical distance the ball will eventually travel?