Similarly, when it was time to get up one morning, I thought I got up, but then discovered I had only dreamed about getting up, and was in fact still asleep. Upon discovering that, I repeated the process. It took 5 iterations to actually get up that morning.
Surely it’s not that simple. There is a long calculation, in which there are many deductions from the price, but ultimately the deductions all disappear and the price is grossed up.
That last line sounds like something one of my flying instructors might have said, except that I would much rather have good altitude than good attitude.
Similarly, when it was time to get up one morning, I thought I got up, but then discovered I had only dreamed about getting up, and was in fact still asleep. Upon discovering that, I repeated the process. It took 5 iterations to actually get up that morning.