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Offline Jonesy

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Math can save your life...
« on: January 10, 2009, 12:48:51 PM »
I was riding to work yesterday when I observed a female driver,  who cut right in front of a pickup truck, causing the driver to swerve onto the shoulder to avoid hitting  her.
 
This evidently angered the driver enough that he hung his arm out his window and gave the woman the  finger.

'Man, that guy is stupid,' I thought to myself. I ALWAYS smile nicely and wave in a sheepish manner whenever a female does anything that stupid to me in traffic, and here's why:
 
I drive 48 miles each way every day to  work.
 
That's 96 miles each  day.
 
Of these, 16 miles each way is  bumper-to-bumper
 
Most of the bumper-to-bumper is on an 8 lane highway.
 
There are 7 cars every 40 feet for 32  miles.
 
That works out to 982 cars every mile, or 31,424 cars.
 
Even though the rest of the 32 mile s is not bumper-to-bumper,  I figure I pass at least another 4000  cars.

That brings the number to something like 36,000 cars that I  pass every day.
 
Statistically, females drive half of  these.
 
That's 18,000 women drivers!
 
In any given group of females, 1 in 28 has  PMS.
 
That's 642.
 
According to Cosmopolitan, 70% describe their love life as dissatisfying or unrewarding.
 
That's  449.
 
According to the National Institute of Health, 22% of all  females have seriously considered suicide or homicide.
 
That's  98.
 
And 34% describe men as their biggest problem.
 
That's  33.
 
According to the National Rifle Association, 5% of all females carry weapons and this number is  increasing.
 
That means that EVERY SINGLE DAY, I drive past at least one female that
    has a lousy love life,
    thinks men are her biggest problem,
    has seriously considered suicide or homicide,
    has PMS,
    and is armed.
 
Give her the  finger?
 
I don't think so.
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Offline Bob Wessner

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Re: Math can save your life...
« Reply #1 on: January 10, 2009, 12:51:12 PM »
 ;D
We'll all be someone else's PO some day.