More New Math…

Here’s the latest equation for your New Math lessons:

$5.00 – $5.00 = ?

If you answered $0, you are not using New Math.
The correct answer in New Math is $5.00.

Here is the explanation of how you arrive at the answer:
Park your car in the parking lot at 7:48 pm. You leave the parking lot, after going shopping at the Grocery Store, at 10:15 pm. The parking rates are $2.50 per half hour. There is a Flat Rate of $5.00 for parking from 6:00 pm to 5:00 am. IF you spend more than $10 at the Grocery Store, you get the First Hour of Parking for FREE. One Hour of Parking is $5.00. BUT IF you go shopping, you don’t pay the Flat Rate, you pay the Hourly Rate… so you get One Hour FREE off your Hourly Rate, but because there’s a Flat Rate, you only have to pay… $5.00.

I refused to pay the $5.00 and finally had to threaten to crash through the gate before the Idiot-in-the-Box would let me out! He made me write my name and phone number on my ticket, so I gave them a phony name and number (which might actually be my aunt’s phone number… ooops!)!

AND I think they’ve got a Good Scam going because the parking attendant tore the bottom of my Grocery Receipt as proof of my One Hour FREE Parking, so they would have gotten MY $5.00, PLUS the $5.00 from the Grocery Store!