Daily 5 - Year 2, Day 145

Today's Daily 5:

1. Peanut butter toast
2. New episodes of Grey's Anatomy and Private Practice to watch online
3. a tasty salad for lunch
4. a restful afternoon
5. getting a whole list of errands finished
6. spending time with a friend, laughing, talking, eating
7. a new battery for my laptop - it's now possible for me to use the computer without a power cable - first time in a year! (essential since I'll want it for in class starting next week)
8. magic bags
9. helpful strangers when my friend's car was stuck in the snow tonight
10. weekend escape at mom and dad's

Apparently Not in Canada!

On my last day of work after Christmas, one of my final administrative tasks was to total up the inventory sheets that our volunteers had tallied the donated toys on, as they "priced" them and sorted them into age groups.

One would think that making a tally would be self-explanatory, right?  Four lines, and then a line through, making groups of five, for easy totaling at the end.

A few minutes in to my task, I discovered that this is apparently not as self-explanatory as I'd thought, and starting taking pictures, emailing them to a friend in California with incredulous comments.

Pictures like this:



And this one (it's hard to see, but they made check marks!):



And last, but not least, there was this:


This person counted in groups of six!

That last one was my final straw.  I sent it to my friend with a message that read "This one counted in groups of six! Do they seriously not teach this in school or something??"

I laughed out loud when her response came:

"Apparently not in Canada! ha!"

I've been laughing ever since.