What types of people don’t count?

In response to last week’s imponderable question, “What types of people don’t count?,” my temple friend Richard listed,

• Members of the party not in power during a U.S. census.
• People who disagree with the party currently in power.
• People who suffer from arithmophobia.

And he added, “Please note that I used “bullets” in lieu of numbering the list, lest I further frighten the arithmophobes among us.

My adjunct executive friend Lindy replied, “I learned from my son, Tucker, ‘There are three kinds of people in this world.  Those who understand numbers and those who don’t.’   My thought is the people in line at the Fewer Than 10 Items checkout counter clearly with more than 10 items.”

My writing and sailing friend Rich observed, “Those that show up at the restaurant with eight people and a reservation for four” while my banking friend Tracey advised, “The ones with negative balances in their bank accounts.”

My sailing friend Norm declared, “Those that don't vote!”  And my social media friend Mark responded, “You know. If you don’t know, you don’t count.”

My cousin Greg noted, “Those of us who aren't mathematically inclined” to which my interfaith-activities friend Ann expounded, “Non-statisticians, non-accountants, most businessmen and, dare I say it, blondes.”

My leadership training friend Stuart went deeper, writing, “Innumerate people don't count, just as illiterate people don't read.”

My website performance friend Taz called out, “Babies, because they haven’t learned, and they only think about themselves.”

My friends Paul and Bob simply pointed out, “Ones with no fingers,” to which my sister-in-law Lorrie added, “those with no fingers or toes.  Fortunately, there are very few of them.”

Please send me your thoughts about this week's "things that make you go 'Hmmm' ":

We rest in peace.  Why don't we live in peace?

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Hal

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Thanks to Demetri Martin, Steven Wright and George Carlin for the inspiration for Hmmm.   I invite you to call or email me to catch up.