Wednesday, July 03, 2013

Oh, This Is SO Freakin' TRUE

My Buddy Ed In Florida sends along the following...
MALE LOGIC 101 .

Woman:
Do you drink beer?
Man: Yes

Woman:
How many beers a day?

Man:
Usually about 3

Woman:
How much do you pay per beer?

Man: $5.00 which includes a tip

(This is where it gets scary !)

Woman:
And how long have you been drinking?

Man:
About 20 years, I suppose

Woman:
So a beer costs $5 and you have 3 beers a day which puts your spending each month at $450. In one year, it would be approximately $5400 …correct?

Man:
Correct

Woman:
If in 1 year you spend $5400, not accounting for inflation, the past 20 years puts your spending at $108,000, correct?

Man:
Correct

Woman:
Do you know that if you didn’t drink so much beer, that money could have been put in a step-up interest savings account and after accounting for compound interest for the past 20 years, you could have now bought a Ferrari?

Man:
Do you drink beer?

Woman:
No

Man:
Where’s your Ferrari?
Heh.  And yer mansion, too.

2 comments:

  1. True, true. I once did similar math concerning smoking. I realized that I could have bought something nicer had I saved the money, but I also knew, with certainty, that my spending would have expanded in some other way to preclude such a possibility.

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    1. Yeah, yer right. I think the same thing about cigars.

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