A delightful moment at Guitar Center today!

@TheHorse (228389)

Walnut Creek, California

March 14, 2024 9:09pm CST

After my lessons were done, I was bantering with my last student, an ADHD 16-year-old. He is a quick learner (what is it with these kids who are called "special needs"?) who really enjoys music. I wished him happy Pi Day. (It's still 3/14 here). His mom was next to him. He asked me: what is Pi? I explained that Pi is 3.14, the number you use to generate the circumference of a circle if you know its diameter. We bantered a bit more, and I finally said, Pi is not really just 3.14, it's 3.141592654. At that point, one of our younger salesmen came over and said, "No, pi is...." He rattled it off for thirty digits. Before he was done I said "Nerd! Nerd!" and moved toward him with my fist held high. We fist bumped successfully (white boys sometimes mess up fist bumps) and everyone was laughing. He went back to his station, my student and his mom left, both laughing, and I picked up my guitar and headed home. Happy Pi Day!

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@kareng (77146)

• United States

15 Mar 24

Fun day!

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@TheHorse (228389)

• Walnut Creek, California

15 Mar 24

It really was. I live for moments like that.

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@kareng (77146)

• United States

15 Mar 24

@TheHorse It makes the job so worthwhile!

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@TheHorse (228389)

• Walnut Creek, California

16 Mar 24

@kareng It really does. I like being out in the community. Most people are NICE and FUN.

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@Tampa_girl7 (52840)

• United States

15 Mar 24

It is January 23.

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@TheHorse (228389)

• Walnut Creek, California

15 Mar 24

Oh no!

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@Tampa_girl7 (52840)

• United States

15 Mar 24

@TheHorse there is always next year.

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@TheHorse (228389)

• Walnut Creek, California

15 Mar 24

@Tampa_girl7 I am going to climb back into my glacier so I can be confused about the date again in a few months.

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@jstory07 (145016)

• Roseburg, Oregon

15 Mar 24

YOu did jave a happy Pi day. That is great.

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@TheHorse (228389)

• Walnut Creek, California

15 Mar 24

Wheee!

@Tampa_girl7 (52840)

• United States

15 Mar 24

I believe they actually have a Pie Day too.

I need to look it up.

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@TheHorse (228389)

• Walnut Creek, California

15 Mar 24

Write PIE on a piece of paper and hold it up to a mirror. 3.14! Kind of.

Valerie J. Routhieaux

@just4him (318811)

• Green Bay, Wisconsin

15 Mar 24

I'm glad you had fun at Guitar Center. I had a good Pi Day too.

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@TheHorse (228389)

• Walnut Creek, California

15 Mar 24

Did you get to eat any pi?

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@TheHorse (228389)

• Walnut Creek, California

15 Mar 24

@just4him I get a headache if I keep my calories down.

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Valerie J. Routhieaux

@just4him (318811)

• Green Bay, Wisconsin

15 Mar 24

@TheHorse No, but I wasn't looking for any. I had a doctor's appointment this morning and needed to keep my calories down as much as possible.

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@BearArtistLady (6036)

• United States

15 Mar 24

Gee, if it had been me I would have brought a "PIE" to class. And as for fist bumps, I go for the hugs right off. Of course you had to have a PIE because they come in a circular pan which would be figured with the PI of 3.141592654.... I would have gone for either a cherry pie or a chocolate cream pie.

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@TheHorse (228389)

• Walnut Creek, California

15 Mar 24

I'm male, so I only hug people when they hug me first. Heh. Once, at the college, a women of about 20 hugged me when I told she was going to pass our Research Methods class (a hard class). We were having our "last day of class party." I said, "Oh God. I am SO fired!" (I didn't get fired.) Everyone around us laughed. I do a lot of fist bumps with the kids at Guitar Center.

@GardenGerty (164632)

• United States

15 Mar 24

Kids identified with learning disabities (LD) often just learn differently (LD) but they do learn. May I "politically correct" you? He is NOT an ADHD student, he is a student who has ADHD. Person centric labelling. Learned that in a training. Person first, label second. Music and math are said to be processed in the same part of the brain so this person who is learning music may also be a quick learner for math. Besides, Pi day is fun. I did not get to eat any.

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@GardenGerty (164632)

• United States

15 Mar 24

@TheHorse My "little" brother has a pumpkin pi shirt. I should likely make a pi.

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@TheHorse (228389)

• Walnut Creek, California

16 Mar 24

@GardenGerty Is he a math smarty pants?

@TheHorse (228389)

• Walnut Creek, California

15 Mar 24

I actually prefer cake to pi. I tried to find my Pi shirt for yesterday but could not. Ain't it funny that if you write 3.14 on a piece of paper and hold it up to a mirror, it spells PIE? Wheee!

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changjiangzhibin89

@changjiangzhibin89 (16988)

• China

15 Mar 24

It is really something ! He can learn the pi of thirty digits by rote ! It is hard to recite such infinite non repeating decimals.

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@TheHorse (228389)

• Walnut Creek, California

15 Mar 24

I have been saying 3.141592654 for enough years that I could probably add four digits to it now. I don't think I'll ever get to infinity, though.

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@LadyDuck (478437)

• Italy

15 Mar 24

No Pi day here in Europe yesterday it was 14/03

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@TheHorse (228389)

• Walnut Creek, California

15 Mar 24

Aha! So THAT'S why it's called NATIONAL Pi Day.

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@LadyDuck (478437)

• Italy

15 Mar 24

@TheHorse Your way to state the dates, we do the "military way" dd/mm/yyyy.

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@TheHorse (228389)

• Walnut Creek, California

15 Mar 24

@LadyDuck Yep. It's easy for an American to be fooled by a European date, unless it's after the 12th of the month.

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@wolfgirl569 (118914)

• Marion, Ohio

15 Mar 24

Glad you had fun. He does know a lot of the digits for it

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@TheHorse (228389)

• Walnut Creek, California

15 Mar 24

The other worker did. But the kid hadn't heard of it. I have a plan for helping him remember 3.14.

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@RasmaSandra (86717)

• Daytona Beach, Florida

15 Mar 24

Glad you had a good day at the Guitar Center

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@RasmaSandra (86717)

• Daytona Beach, Florida

16 Mar 24

@TheHorse sure do and never enjoyed this

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@TheHorse (228389)

• Walnut Creek, California

17 Mar 24

@RasmaSandra Never enjoyed Pi? I always wondered how they "figured it out."

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@TheHorse (228389)

• Walnut Creek, California

16 Mar 24

Do you remember Pi from you book learnin' days?

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@Fleura (32002)

• United Kingdom

15 Mar 24

Big One likes to rattle off Pi to a string of decimal places too. Pi day doesn't really work here because it's 14/3 (or at least it was yesterday!)

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@TheHorse (228389)

• Walnut Creek, California

15 Mar 24

Dang foreigners.

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@franxav (14179)

• India

15 Mar 24

Those children are certainly special.

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@TheHorse (228389)

• Walnut Creek, California

15 Mar 24

I enjoy teaching The fella I did the fist bump with was a co-worker.

@LindaOHio (193904)

• United States

15 Mar 24

I'm glad you had a good time. I hope you have an even better weekend.

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@TheHorse (228389)

• Walnut Creek, California

15 Mar 24

Thanks. You too.

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@TheHorse (228389)

• Walnut Creek, California

16 Mar 24

@LindaOHio I have six students tomorrow morning. Then I can relax a bit.

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@LindaOHio (193904)

• United States

16 Mar 24

@TheHorse Thank you very much.

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@JudyEv (357891)

• Rockingham, Australia

16 Mar 24

What a heart-warming exchange! And good for that young salesman.