Calculator Addiction
Friends stage an intervention for Gus's calculator habit, and he immediately relapses to compute 5 × 7.
Content note: Addiction/intervention framing (played for laughs).
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2015-01-01-calculator-addiction/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)Transcript
A: "Gus, this is an intervention. Please, listen."
B: "5 weeks since you put it down."
C: "You know how many days that is?"
Gus (reaching for a calculator): "Lemme check… 5 × 7…"
D: "NO, GUS"