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Monday, October 23, 2006
Take the Sandy Springs SAT test
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Last weekend my daughter Amelia and four friends performed the fall ritual of high school seniors everywhere – taking the SAT. All are aiming for a score that will land them in the college of their choice and maybe some scholarship cash.
So I started thinking — what if one had to take an SAT-style test to be eligible to vote in Sandy Springs? What if we really raised the bar for citizenship? What if one had to earn the right to be called a Sandy Springsteen?
I haven’t drafted a formal presentation for the next city council meeting, but I wanted to give you some study questions so you have prep time. Grab that #2 pencil and good luck!
1) Fulton County is to Sandy Springs as:
a) Toothpaste is to acute gum disease
b) Motor oil is to axle grease
c) General Sherman was to the original Atlanta tourism board
The answer is “c”though a half point is awarded for anyone choosing “a” because they were thrown by the word “disease” in connection to Fulton County.
2) Dave goes into Sandy Springs’ “adult” nightclub. He has $75 is cash and his American Express card. Valet parking is $5; the cover charge is $10. If his drinks are $5 each and table dances are $10, and he has six drinks and two dances, how much will he tell his wife he spent over a five-hour period?
a) $45, but he’ll say he only had two drinks and watched a ballgame at the bar.
b) $75, but claim a client wanted to go there and he just couldn’t talk him out of it.
c) Dave will lie like a dog about the whole thing and forget about it until the Amex bill arrives with a $1,000 charge from the club. His wife sees the bill before Dave, who will pay for that evening for the rest of his life.
The answer could be any of the three, but “c” is the most likely since there is a proven correlation between watching strippers and male-memory lapses.
3) A car is puttering down Roswell Road at 5 p.m. on a Friday. Assuming the stretch it will cover is six miles, and the car is going 48 miles per hour, how long in minutes will the trip take from beginning to end?
a) 24 minutes
b) 16 minutes
c) 8 minutes
OK, this was a trick question. Anyone clocking 48 mph at that hour on that day would have to be driving on the sidewalk to get close to that speed, assuming all pedestrians got out of the way.
So how did you do?
