It is Veteran Day today, so many celebrations including parades are held across the country. I had a pleasant chat with my neighbor Dennis who is a veteran when I arrived at home after work.
It is also a funny holiday Chinese created years ago - Singles' Day. Alibaba has been capitalizing on it for quite a few years. However, it hasn't successfully influenced Americans to celebrate it. Though I enjoyed my single father's life very much and even hesitate to date a girlfriend because I can't imagine that I will have to share my time with her to do something I don't enjoy, I don't want to promote this holiday. I expect my son to date a beautiful, smart and kind girl to get married, then I can enjoy looking after my grandchildren from time to time. He should have a happy normal life with his family in his whole life. People like me have gone through decades' turmoil, it may be why we are living an odd life. My number as a soccer player was No. 11, it's hilarious and may be my destiny.
When I woke up at 3:00 in the morning, I read through my classmates' chats on WeChat and noticed an interesting problem one of them posted. He mentioned it was a question in the quiz for him to qualify for trading with margin, something like that.
"How many bottles of beers can you drink if the following conditions are set up?
- RMB 2:00 per bottle and you have RMB 10:00
- 2 emptied bottles to exchange a bottle of beer
- 4 lids of the bottle to exchange a bottle of beer"
When I read through to the end of the chats, they had posted the answer: 20 bottles. The scenario I interpreted was:
I went to a restaurant to sit down to order 20 bottles of beer and drank them all, at the end, there were 20 emptied bottles and 20 lids left on the table, adding RMB 10:00 I had, 20 bottles in total can be figured out:
20/2+20/4+10/2=10+5+5=20
This is in China, so there is no sales tax and tip.
However, my thought process at the beginning was to pay in front:
After 12 rounds, I would drink 15 bottles and left 1 emptied bottle and 3 lids on the table.
You can find this type of problems in textbooks frequently, but eventually I figured out that they were teasing the hostess of our chat group who rarely posted chats herself. The pronunciation of her name in Chinese is Bottle of Alcohol. Later on, this gal who was our one of the only six female classmates back in 30 years ago finally greeted us. These guys must revise the original quiz problem for their purpose.
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