Basic fucking finance is goddamn addition and subtracting. How fucking dumb do you have to be to realize that if you have $300 you shouldn't spend $500?
If you can't figure that shit out, you shouldn't have passed the fucking ASVAB.
Yeah, I'd heard the term dependapotomus before, back in the 1990's.
The finance charges thing I got. A lot of those kids didn't know that the bank charged fees to use the ATM, some charged fees to write checks, then some (Bank of America) charged fees for Direct Deposit, and then you had annual and monthly account fees.
I'd seen kids lose $100+ to fucking banking fees.
And interest, fuck, I know fully educated college graduates that don't understand finance charges and interest.
Didn't hold that against them.
But having some fat chick with 2 kids by other men sitting next to some green fucking private burping out "Well, dey don't teach no bud-jet-tang in da skool" when I'm sitting there trying to explain it to them, just drove me fucking crazy.
But, they were in fucking love, so of course command just signed off on their marriage like a fucking joke.