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I think I saw this on reddit years ago: Programmer's wife: "when you go to the store, can you buy a carton of milk and if they have eggs, get six." He comes b
by preparat 6y ago
I think I saw this on reddit years ago:
Programmer's wife: "when you go to the store, can you buy a carton of milk and if they have eggs, get six."
He comes back with 6 cartons of milk. Wife: "why would you buy six cartons of milk?"
"Well, they had eggs"
- nvader 6y agoThe next time she says to him, "while you're at the store, pick up some bananas." Legend says he's at the store still.
- musicale 6y agoProgrammers will also use up all the shampoo if the label says "lather, rinse, repeat" with no explicit termination condition.
- mark-r 6y agoThat one can be attributed to Grace Hopper.
- sjburt 6y agoSince when do programmers read the documentation?
- dfex 6y agoFortunately showering doesn't appear to be common in the profession
- nvader 6y agoExcept for: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25866309 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25866309
- klik99 6y agoI get it, she’s upset that he didn’t get 7, which is technicallly what she meant.