Well said, Ms. Wormwood, but I live in Milano, Italy, and in Italian we say and write the number first and the currency after. It does not change the meaning of the post, though.
“All that really matters is results”What else does the school teaches nowadays (and social medias, enterprise communications, advertising and parents themselves) ?
This “cootie” thing has always baffled me: it is only USA in spite of the historic American matriarcate. In Italy we are traditionally more “sexist”, but we never ever had such a stupidity, even in elementary school.
Funerals (generally in the last rows) are the places where you hear the grossest jokes and the funniest gossip. There is often a party or a restaurant dinner afterward, and it is a perfect occasion for meeting new people and organize adulterine afternoons. By the way, it is not human perversion but the good old neurohormones: life MUST go on.
It is not, when you have your nose 50 cm above ground and no ID card.