"Dimes are five cents, right?"

"165 dollars"

"Three dimes in 15 dollars."

One student in the four had the correct answer.

https://x.com/TheEXECUTlONER_/.../2052940724719481056

Very sad.

When it said kids, I thought it would be eight year olds.

These 'kids' sound like they would be twice that.

When I was a kid I happily picked up a penny found on the sidewalk. My mother paid me a dime to scrape dried chicken dung out of the chicken coop. Hard work and horrible ammonia fumes.

But I doubt that most kids nowadays would stoop to pick up a dime.

ETA – That was damned hot work in Missouri summers; not a breath of breeze in that chicken coop. 100° F or more.

Also, it was my job to cut off a chicken’s head for Sunday dinner. I’d catch a chicken, lay it on its back and “hypnotize” it. Lay it on its back on the chopping block then begin stroking its head. After a few strokes the chicken would go comatose. Then one clean stroke with my hatchet.

Sometimes I’d hypnotize a chicken just for fun. After a minute or two the chicken would awaken, right itself, flop down and walk away.

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Originally posted by Pipe Smoker:
When I was a kid I happily picked up a penny found on the sidewalk. But I doubt that most kids nowadays would stoop to pick up a dime.

I know right. And that’s like 5 pennys.

You have 1 dime and 1 nickel, or about 1.5 grams, or about .45 ounce.

Between 1 and 2 fingers in the baggie, depending on quality.

In 1980...

Kids don’t use cash anymore.

I was trying to teach fractions to 7th graders and asked how many quarters in a dollar. Seriously, it’s in the name, but a bunch of them had trouble. I’ve subbed for all grades at that school, so I know they teach coins in the elementary grades. It was the students that came from other schools in middle school that had the most trouble.

I once bought a burrito from a roach coach for $5.50 with a $100. The girl had a confused look on her face. I told her the change was $94.50.

Still confused she took out a calculator and punched in the numbers. She then with an amazed look on her face said-You must have gone to college…

I watched a couple of his videos last year.

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Originally posted by ArtieS:
You have 1 dime and 1 nickel, or about 1.5 grams, or about .45 ounce.

Between 1 and 2 fingers in the baggie, depending on quality.

In 1980...

Yo Yo Yo, droppin Dimes with State Farm!

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When was the War of 1812?

Who is buried in Grants tomb? (you're probably wrong)

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Originally posted by Pipe Smoker:

But I doubt that most kids nowadays would stoop to pick up a dime.

Its no fun gluing a dime to the sidewalk anymore. Nobody cares.

I thought they might thinking of dime bags, but that doesn't add up either. For that matter, with inflation, do dime bags even exist any more?

Andy Rooney did this experiment too in 1986 (40 years ago).

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3cnhJwEoUnU

I had a paper route at age 12. I damn sure understood the value of a dime and every other coin and bill.

I had ordered breakfast a few weeks ago and the girl behind the counter apparently thought I was going to use a card.

$9.40 was the total. I gave her a twenty.

She gets out her iPhone, tap tap tap... 10.6 it had on the screen.

I get a two fives, a nickel, and a penny.

Didn't feel like giving out math lesson at the time, so I shook my head in disbelief, grabbed breakfast, and left.

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Originally posted by .38supersig:
When it said kids, I thought it would be eight year olds.

These 'kids' sound like they would be twice that.

So, according to the math, the kids are about . . . twelve? Correct?

Last time I checked American coinage is still the only one that does not have a numeric value imprinted on it.

I like it when the cashiers count the change back to you at the grocery store.
And I thank them for doing so.

The young people tend not to do it.