In my guesstimation...

I realized last weekend that I'm pretty poor at estimating quantity. I thought I was reasonably good at math, but I was always terrible at those games where there's a huge jar of candy like M&Ms and people can pay a nominal fee to guess the number inside, with the closest person winning all of said candy.

The latest example was when I was asked to bring a fruit salad to an Easter dinner at my former college pastor's place. For 12 people, I bought two pineapples, two honeydew melons, and a four pound container of strawberries. At least I was consistently off because it only took half of everything to fill up a casserole dish:



It was quite an experience as I couldn't really remember exactly how a pineapple is cut so I had to call Ruth to get some guidance. I can't really take credit for choosing the ingredients either, as that's the combination that is served daily at Google :)

We thankfully finished most of it at dinner, so there wasn't much by way of leftovers. But I had to cut up the rest of the fruit, filled up another dish, and have been eating fruit the entire week!