Next to me, there's a family with two older parents and their adult son - probably in his mid 20s. CNN was showing a story about a 13-year old boy who had collected and donated 1.5 million pennies to commemorate all the children who died in the holocaust. The son caught interest in the story and started asking his parents how much money that was, but they weren't watching so they didn't know what he was talking about and they showed no interest in being helpful.
So, then he asked his dad: "How many pennies are there in a dollar? 100, right?" (This is when I really started paying attention.) Then he brought out his cell phone to use the calculator, talking to himself: "One point five times a hundred, is that what I do?" Then, some silence and fiddling with the calculator before giving up and asking his dad several questions, finally leading up to "How many dollars is 1.5 million pennies?" The dad thought about it for a few seconds and said "150,000 dollars."
End of conversation.
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