According to Gary, the car mechanic asked Gary how far he drove a week.
Gary answered, “Two thousand miles.”
I am not good with math, but even I knew this was wrong, and I questioned him.
This tells you all you need to know about Gary: he argued with me, doubled down on it, questioned my logic and my ability to multiply by two because it was a round trip, and then said there was a decimal point on the odometer he didn’t account for, then when I said “still, even two hundred miles is insane for the one trip you make a week,” he said, “I am not having this discussion anymore.”
3 responses to “2000 a Week”
Is it an older man thing, exaggeration? My husband does it all the time. Reaction maybe to a past career establishing truth, and facts? But annoying, and misleading to those who don’t know he’s doing it.
Yeah, unless he’s driving 4 hours a week – or 3 hours only-freeway-driving – 200 is… a bit excessive. But sometimes we throw out ballpark numbers without thinking about it… but yes, when we do that, we then need to climb down rather than doubling down…
Big Dot – interesting – Gary claims to revere facts and accuracy as well. I see it as an outgrowth of his expansive nature. Everything must be bigger, better, more expensive. Moderation in NO things.KC – he already begins by doubling all the numbers, then rounding up to the next even number. I think he feels that climbing down would be unsafe.