In a testament to the stories we tell ourselves, 24-year-old Rhiannon Weisz is currently filing her taxes and grumbling about how “school never taught us the important, useful things,” as if she remembers literally anything from school at all.
“It’s just so frustrating that we had to learn a
I think all that we learned was the ‘trick’ to mentally calculating 17.5% VAT (sales tax) by taking 10%, then halving it twice, and adding the three numbers.
Pretty useless now, as it’s gone up to 20%.