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I was having dinner with my parents and brother. We were having a good time and enjoying the food when I randomly remembered the ball and bat riddle. I thought it would be a fun, easy enough brain teaser and proceeded to tell it.
They all looked at me like a deer in headlights.
"10 cents" my mom says.
My brother and dad chime in with "yeah 10 cents"
I say they're wrong, and to really think about it. I tell them the riddle again. They're still 100% sure it can only be 10 cents. We keep on going back and forth, and things start to get more heated. I keep on telling them that it can't be 10 cents, but now they're starting to say I'm lying.
I gave up and said "the answer is 5 cents", but to no avail. My dad starts going on a tangent about how it can be anything between 1 and 10 cent, meanwhile my mom is yelling at me that it's impossible for the answer to be anything other than 10 cents. I even show them a reddit thread explaining the solution, and now my brother starts ranting about how it's a typical reddit neckbeard riddle with incorrect math. I call them morons, they call me a moron, and now dinner is officially ruined.
Not telling this one again
TLDR: Ruined the entire evening by making my family argue about a middle school math problem
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