THE ADVENTURES OF JJ PICKLETOES

What are the odds? 

This question has got me wondering, pondering really, on the subject. 

Here are a few facts, more  factish than fact perhaps, but information all the same. 

Did you know that your odds of getting hit by lightning are 1 in 15,300, these are such small odds, yet whenever there is a remote chance of lightning, we all go rushing to safety. 

Your odds of becoming a NASA astronaut are 1 in 14,278. 

Your odds of becoming a spy are 1 in 7,208. 

But how do they really know for sure?  

Your odds of playing in the NHL are 1 in 4,000, yet every parent who has a 11 year old boy thinks their son will play in the NHL. 

Have you ever been scared to go swimming in the ocean, snorkeling or scuba diving, because you might get attacked by a shark? 

Your chances of getting attacked by a shark while you are in the water are 1 in 11.5 million. 

Your chances of getting attacked by a shark when you are just on the beach, never. 

That is why people mostly stay on the beach when they go on a beach vacation. 

My grandpa doesn’t want to take the chance of getting attacked by a shark on the beach, so he sits way back from the beach under the shade of a tree. 

I wonder what the odds are of a coconut falling on his head are? 

I just looked it up while I was writing this. 

The odds of getting killed by a falling coconut are 1 in 250,000,000. 

“In March 2003, The Morning Call in Pennsylvania reported, “You are 30 times more likely to be killed by a falling coconut than by a shark”.” 

My research says you are 22 times more likely to be killed by a falling coconut than killed by a shark, either way it is a lot and yet, 

people feel more comfortable sitting under a coconut tree than swimming in the ocean.  

So sorry I digress, which is a big word for a guy my age, and you what people say about people using big words needlessly. 

What do you think that the odds really are? 

What were my parents thinking? 

What do you think that the odds are of me, a 9 month old boy getting all of my lunch in my mouth? 

I can tell you with complete confidence, that it is almost zero.  

That is zero out of any number you want to use, because zero times any number is still zero. 

You will know this if you have been doing your math homework. 

And yet, 

My parents still let me try to feed myself. 

What are my parents thinking? 

They know that I won’t get all my food in my mouth but, I will get some, so it must be worth trying. 

Odds are, I will probably get better at it and eventually I will get all my food in my mouth at every meal. 

Did you know that the odds of becoming a teacher for those who want to, are 1 in 41? 

That is very good odds, if you want to be a teacher. 

Tell me about something that you did that was against the odds. 

Let me know in the comments. 

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