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Your hed gif source is “I Love Lucy.” As this is one of the most recognized scenes in tv comedy history, you likely already knew that. https://open.substack.com/pub/martiniambassador/p/job-switching

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Look, I'm sure I could have learned arithmetic at age 6, but no one had taught me. So one morning I head down the stairs to ask my mom a question that was on my mind.

"Mom?"

"Yes."

"What's 40 times 40?"

Now here's where any normal mom would ask, "Why do you want to know?" But not my mom. My mom (an accountant by the way, though I'm sure that has nothing to do with this story) didn't blink at being asked to multiply a couple numbers together and responded, "1600"

And here's the weird thing: even though I was just curious, I filed that away as if it was the most important fact in my existence. Then a year later, entirely out of the blue, my dad asks, "So does anyone know what 40 times 40 is?"

I practically leapt onto the table to yell, "1600!" desperately afraid my mom would answer first.

But nope. I got it out before she could begin to speak. Then this weird thing happened where my mom nudged my dad and smiled and my dad nodded back and everything and I was pretty sure that they were having some silent conversation about how he could have just asked her or something, but whatever that conversation was about, it was over pretty quickly and for some reason dad asked if anyone wanted to rent a movie and make popcorn. He seemed in a pretty good mood.

Parents: they're weird, but sometimes they're okay.

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