Woman: Do you drinkbeer?
Man: Yes
Woman: How many beers a day?
Man: Usually aboutthree
Woman: How much do you pay per beer?
Man: £5.00 whichincludes a tip (this is where it gets scary!)
Woman: And how long have you been drinking?
Man: About 20 years,I suppose
Woman: So a beer costs £5 and you have threebeers a day which puts your spending each month at £450. In one year, it wouldbe approximately
£5400 correct?
Man: Correct
Woman: If in 1 year you spend £5400, notaccounting for inflation, the past 20 years puts your spending at £108,000correct?
Man: Correct
Woman: Do you know that if you didn’t drink so much beer, that moneycould have been put in a step-up interest savings account
and after accounting for compound interest forthe past 20 years, you could have now bought an airplane?

Man: Do you drink beer?
Woman: No.
Man: Where is yourairplane?