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I have a drawbridge on my way to work. A drawbridge! Barges come in under that bridge.
Different philosophy around here. No such thing as late really because a random one hour delay is just too much to solve by leaving early.
Boss: locks you in the building
Boss: you live here now. I expect 3x productivity for a $0.50 cent raise with a maximum daily rate of quiet mumbling. Problem solved!
How much is half a dollar cents in USD?
(I wrote that when groggy, but my thinking was that it's supposed to be read aloud/verbally, so you'd ignore the $ and say the cents. My brain was still asleep.)
About $3.50
E: also why do we say "three dollars and fifty cents" when it's clearly "dollar three [and] fifty [cents]". Language weird, return to grunts.
Because it's translation, not transliteration.
Uh, $0.50 or 50¢? Is this a trick question?
I think their point is that you would already read $0.50 as 50 cents, so adding the word cent to that makes it redundant.
Ah good call
If you had a 1974 Dodge Monaco, preferably the police cruiser version, you could jump that drawbridge with no problem.
Best I can do is an ‘01 Corolla.
Okay I have no drawbridges close by, is it because traffic backs up so much or because the drawbridge takes so long? I imagine a combination so really curious on the drawbridge time needed I guess.
Used to live in a city that would raise a bridge for a ship but I tried not to travel that way if possible. It was on the coast so you could drive around, though probably worse traffic felt like it was moving.
It’s both. Some large and slow ships can take half an hour just to go under the bridge. By then you’ve accumulated a significant back up of traffic.
Oh I had no idea they could take that long, the bridge I knew about obviously handled much smaller ships I think like 15mins was max for the bridge time from the city I knew. Of course this city was still like 30mins driving end to end (in better traffic) so not huge. Appreciate the reply, thank you, learned something which is always a bonus.
This is no longer relevant to me, as I now work from home; but I felt the same way a few years back when I used to commute. Then a giant cargo ship crashed into the bridge I used to cross daily (which was not a drawbridge but preceded one on my commute) and collapsed it.
At least, I expect, me being late that day would have been excusable.