Sunday, July 29, 2007

College life

My brother is a college professor in Montreal so we got to visit with him on our trip. My parents, who live much closer to Montreal than they do to our hometown, also came to visit. Anyhow, my brother was recounting some funny stories about his students. He was telling us about this one student who hand delivered a research paper and explained/apologized for the fact that when her paper was all typed up, she had handwritten by pen the Roman numerals enumerating her headings because "her computer doesn't have Roman numerals on it"!!!! ROFL Talk about unclear on the concept!! Yeah, because where ever would one find I, II, III, IV, V, X, L, C etc. etc. on a computer!!!! And on a totally different note, while I love Cartier watches, one thing that drives me totally crazy is that they insist on doing the number 4 on their watches, which should be IV as IIII... it's almost enough to make me not like their watches... almost!!lol

2 comments:

crazylady said...

When you're Cartier, I guess you make the rules.

Middle-Aged Moi said...

THANK YOU for saying that! We have a clock that has the SAME THING and it's always driven me crazy to see the four the WRONG WAY!!!