gwalchmai Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 Costco has these really great cookie combos, with white chocolate/macadamia nut, oatmeal raisin, and toll house. Let's say you like all three, but especially oatmeal raisin. Your wife likes toll house best, then WCMN, but really doesn't care for oatmeal raisin. How do you choose the order in which you select your cookies over the next few days to maximize their utility to you? 10 point bonus question: What order do you choose to maximize your "life happiness"? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramjet38 Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 Order what you like and tell the wife to get over it. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 48 minutes ago, gwalchmai said: Costco has these really great cookie combos, with white chocolate/macadamia nut, oatmeal raisin, and toll house. Let's say you like all three, but especially oatmeal raisin. Your wife likes toll house best, then WCMN, but really doesn't care for oatmeal raisin. How do you choose the order in which you select your cookies over the next few days to maximize their utility to you? 10 point bonus question: What order do you choose to maximize your "life happiness"? As much as I want or as much as I can carry. My wife does the same. Going to a grocery store with my wife is like taking a child to a candy store. Buy all the cookies you want. They have a good shelf life and if you like them warmmmmmmmmm, you can always heat 'em up in the microwave. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Historian Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 56 minutes ago, gwalchmai said: 10 point bonus question: What order do you choose to maximize your "life happiness"? Well about 20 minutes ago, and one beer later, i was told i am off the clock. First day off in almost one month. Yeah.....salary... when you average it out... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zonny Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 (edited) Is all three an option? Cuz that's how I roll Remove 1/3 from each and replace with 1/3 from the others. Place 2 packs in the freezer for later and enjoy the other! Edited March 27, 2020 by Zonny 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tadbart Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 This question involves too much math and logic. I'm out. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 I think there is a possibility that you are confusing want with need. Want is how many cookies of any variety you can buy. Need is the minimum cookies it takes to keep you from doing harm to someone. Need for me is 1 dozen. Want for me is, "More". 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricordo Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Borg warner Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 1 hour ago, Ramjet38 said: Order what you like and tell the wife to get over it. That just cost you minus 20 points on the bonus question, "What order do you choose to maximize your "life happiness"? 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minervadoe Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 (edited) 2 hours ago, gwalchmai said: How do you choose the order in which you select your cookies over the next few days to maximize their utility to you? 10 point bonus question: What order do you choose to maximize your "life happiness"? If wife does not like oatmeal raisin, then you eat them all. Then, once the wife eats all the Tollhouse cookies, you muse something like, "I'd love one of those tollhouse cookies, any left?" She says "no", but feels guilty for plowing through them like she has a vacuum attachment instead of a mouth. You softball her with, "Are there any of those delicious white chocolate macadamia nut cookies?" She feels relieved that you didn't call her out for immodestly powering through an entire batch of cookies and then you agree to split the remainder 50 / 50. You continue to eat oat meal raisin cookies. It is your duty as the man of the house. Besides, they're pretty tasty (and they keep you regular). You beg for leftovers before she polishes off the macadamia cookies in a fevered pitch of madness comparable to a road rage incident. Sound like a plan? Edited March 27, 2020 by minervadoe 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheygriz Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 You're okay as long as you don't toss those cookies!! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tous Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 2 hours ago, gwalchmai said: ... order in which you select your cookies over the next few days ... There are several flaws in your logic. The most glaring, that said cookies will last days. This is the correct method of consuming a variety of cookies. With a fresh cup of coffee at hand, eat one of each; order is not important. Put the rest of the cookies in the kitchen, return to Barcalounger or couch. Wait exactly five minutes. Retreive cookies, repeat steps one and two until there are no more cookies. 3 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tous Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 I forgot the most important step: When cookies are all consumed, replace cookies. Repeat steps one and two, plus addendum, until there are no more cookies -- anywhere. 2 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwalchmai Posted March 27, 2020 Author Share Posted March 27, 2020 (edited) Well, I probably failed in the problem description portion. I already have the cookies. It's a clamshell with a dozen of each of those. I needed to go to Costco this morning buy gas for the truck and mowers ($1.37/gal :)) and Mrs. G mentioned that her mom & dad needed paper towels & TP. Since I had to go in I grabbed a box of cookies. Yes, there were towels but no TP, so I gave the in-laws half a dozen rolls from my secret stash. I get to use his zero-turn Bad Boy mower - it's like having a neighbor with a pool So, I got home and surprised Mrs. G with "antiviral cookies". She axed me if I was going to eat the oatmeal first and I said I'd need to call a buddy who knew all about which cookies to eat first... She mumbled something about "bunch of reprobates", IDK. Edited March 27, 2020 by gwalchmai 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwalchmai Posted March 27, 2020 Author Share Posted March 27, 2020 Make that "bunch of reprobates, <crunch> <crunch>" 2 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ay Dios Mio Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minervadoe Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 (edited) 2 hours ago, tous said: There are several flaws in your logic. The most glaring, that said cookies will last days. This is the correct method of consuming a variety of cookies. With a fresh cup of coffee at hand, eat one of each; order is not important. Put the rest of the cookies in the kitchen, return to Barcalounger or couch. Wait exactly five minutes. Retreive cookies, repeat steps one and two until there are no more cookies. Thank you for noting that blaring assumption. Edited March 28, 2020 by minervadoe 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zonny Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 Now I wanna make cookies 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
holyjohnson Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 5 hours ago, gwalchmai said: 10 point bonus question: What order do you choose to maximize your "life happiness"? you buy all the cookies. i will accept my 10 points in the form of Toilet Paper... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricordo Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 A diminutive, I mean "little" Girl Scout (?), came to my door and asked if I wanted to buy some cookies., I gave her $20 bill and said how many can I have? She said four boxes. I can tell that those Girl Scout Thin Mints thought that they had met the Apocalypse when the next day I asked the wife if she knew where that little girl came from. Cause her "stuff" was gone already. Some of you might have noticed that my posting late at night had all the hallmarks of too many cookies. I am thinking that the next time this happens, I will probably try to muscle in on her racket and buy a majority of her Chocolate Thin Mint cookies. If for no other reason than to see her face light up again! She was a sweet little thing. Just right for a source of cookies. The authorities wouldn't suspect a thing. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tous Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 20 minutes ago, Zonny said: Now I wanna make cookies Don't tell gwalch. He'll be at your door with a cup of coffee. Heck, I'll rassle him for just one of your cookies. 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 21 minutes ago, Zonny said: Now I wanna make cookies I thought Cookie making was in your DNA! I'm shocked that you don't have cookie dough secreted away for just that moment when it's wanted, needed, and necessary. I have a bucket of mix in the fridge just for those moments when I can't control the urge. Only 15 minutes away from a hot cup of Coffee. I have cut back to 10 or 12 at a time. You have to give them up gradually or you may fall into Cakes. I been thinking of taking up drinking to ease off cookies. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zonny Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 “A bucket”? You sound like my Ex daughter in law who called one night and asked if she could come over the next morning to make cookies. “Sure”, I said. She showed up with a couple of tubes of “slice and bake” Lol. I said, I thought we were making cookies not slicing cookies. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
holyjohnson Posted March 28, 2020 Share Posted March 28, 2020 (edited) i just broke into my Doomsday TEOTWAWKI SHTF WWROL Tollhouse Dough stash #3 Hope no one starts a Raspberry Danish Thread...... Edited March 28, 2020 by holyjohnson 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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