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"How to calculate gas money and keep your human friends so you don't have to hang out with slugs all day": a tutorial.

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00:14

Sherman the slacker has been waiting for his ride to school for a [Sherman waiting patiently for a ride to school]

00:20

while now he's pretty sure school has already started by now but he doesn't

00:20

really care like we said he's a slacker he just wishes he could go back inside

00:25

and play video games but his mom is in there and you know she'll yell at him [Sherman playing video games while his mother holds a sweeping brush]

00:28

so he decides he might as well walk to school he walks slower than a slug

00:32

in a food coma which for those who have never died with a slug is very slow but [a slug moving very slowly on the ground]

00:37

he does make it to school by lunchtime awesome Sherman's favorite class is lunch

00:41

as he's biting into his piece of pizza Sherman sees Andre the guy who was

00:45

supposed to give him a ride Sherman asked Andre where he was this morning [Andre walking up to Sherman in the cafeteria]

00:49

not that Sherman really minded missing class he was just actually curious Andre

00:53

reminds Sherman that he's supposed to pay for half of the gas costs but he never

00:57

gives him a cent so he told Sherman that he couldn't pick him up anymore if he [Andre asking Sherman for money for the gas]

01:00

didn't ship in Sherman tells Andre to chill out and just write down on a

01:04

napkin how much he owes Andre says that he drives five miles out of his way to

01:08

pick up Sherman and that gas costs 1.935 dollars per gallon and that his car [math calculations scribbled on a napkin]

01:14

gets 30 miles to the gallon Sherman tells Andre to get to the point he

01:18

really wants to get another slice of pizza Andre divides 30 by 5 to get the [Sherman looking sad at waiting to get a slice of pizza]

01:21

idea that every six days Sherman is costing in the gallon of gas that means

01:25

every six days Sherman owes Andre 1.935 dollars Andre points out that

01:30

he takes Sherman to school six days a week because Sherman is always in

01:33

detention on Saturday and Andre has band practice there's been eight weeks of

01:37

school so far and eight times 1.935 dollars comes to eleven dollars and 16 cents

01:42

which is how much Sherman owes ok cool says Sherman I've got 12 bucks you can [Sherman waving 12 dollars to Andre]

01:47

have whats yours as long as I have enough so I can buy another slice and a side of

01:50

nacho cheese Andre gives up and tells Sherman to just walk from now on Sherman [Andre stands up and walks away from the dining table]

01:54

shrugs and thinks it's his lucky day he's pretty sure that now he can afford

01:57

at least two more slices with two sides of nacho cheese he's not worried about

02:01

the calories there's going to be a lot of walking in the weeks ahead [Slug slithering along the road slowly]

02:06

Wow

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