I Get My Chance

Today is the first day I get to teach the 10 new ladies in the Pharmacy Technician Program in Tulsa. I do my dollar bill metric class. Every piece of folding money in the U.S. is supposed to weight the exact same...1 gram. That means a $100 bill weighs the same as the $1 bill. Ray Charles had trouble with this concept in his early professional career since he couldn't tell if he was receiving $100 or $1. He solved the problem by always being paid in single dollar bills. If you were to cut the $1 into 1000 equal pieces, each piece would weigh one milligram (mg). Cut one piece of the 1000 equal pieces into 1000 more equal pieces and you would have one microgram (mcg). Therein lies the basis of the metric system. Thereby, 15-20 drops of water at room temperature weighs one gram or the weight of a single dollar bill. I love this stuff!