"inspire another line of thought that takes you completely away from the prompt" thanks for adding this to the prompt!! I went through three improv songs before I settled on this one haha. 12 is my favorite number, and it just so happens to be the menu number of the rare beef pho I ordered last night.

My fav pho restaurant in Reno, Pho 999, doesn't let us split the check anymore. My sister paid for the meal and did a 20% tip, so I told my other friend that we should take the total of our purchases and multiply it by 1.0827 for total + tax, then multiply that result by 1.2 to get the total + 20% tip. My friend was NOT getting it :( Which doesn't bode well for my upcoming new career as a substitute teacher 😅

#skirmish #improv #omnichord #anxiety #math

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I'm the person in the friend group Who gets their calculator out At the end of the meal And makes sure that we all pay for our part perfectly

And I tried to explain to my friend yesterday how to do that math easily And I had such a hard time And it made me wonder, will I be a good

Math teacher someday when I am substituting Will the kids understand what I am trying to say? Will I be a good teacher next time when I'm actually getting paid? Or will I just flounder the way I did with them?

And maybe that's a little silly to get so worked up over That I couldn't tell my friend the best way To calculate how much the tip would be Is times 1.2

If you're doing a 20% tip and you multiply it by .2, You'll get the tip, but you won't get the full amount to pay your friend back Skip the step!

Am I thinking too hard? Am I worried too hard? Is this anxiety useful or should I leave it behind? Am I worrying too hard? Am I thinking too hard? 'Cause I'm sure it'll turn out okay, but still, I find myself worrying

And does it add up? Does it add up? Does me plus teaching turn into kids who are really ready for the real world? Does it add up? Does it add up? Does me + teaching = kids who are ready To take on math in the real world?

And I had a friend who I wasn't patient with Will I be patient with the kids? And maybe I'm freaking out over nothing 'Cause if I'm just there for one day I can't really fuck it up that bad anyway!

1 + 1 = 2 I can at least tell them that! and 2 x 3 = 6 and now we're getting somewhere! But why can't I communicate That if you want to find a 20% tip and total it, You can just take the total of everything you bought was And multiply it by 1.2 1.2 Is that all it should be to you? Multiply it by 1.2 And of course you can calculate the tax too Just add another 1.0875 or whatever the tax rate is in your area I don't know that 😅