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I think I saw this on reddit years ago:

Programmer's wife: "when you go to the store, can you buy a carton of milk and if they have eggs, get six."

He comes back with 6 cartons of milk. Wife: "why would you buy six cartons of milk?"

"Well, they had eggs"




The next time she says to him, "while you're at the store, pick up some bananas."

Legend says he's at the store still.


Programmers will also use up all the shampoo if the label says "lather, rinse, repeat" with no explicit termination condition.


Since when do programmers read the documentation?


That one can be attributed to Grace Hopper.


Fortunately showering doesn't appear to be common in the profession



I get it, she’s upset that he didn’t get 7, which is technicallly what she meant.




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