One of my friends from High School posted that meme about how school didn't prepare him properly for life, because he doesn't know how to do taxes, but at least he knows that the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.

I had to comment: "I sat next to you in civics class, where we literally filled out fake tax forms to prepare us for doing taxes.".

It's ridiculous.

I can't forget it. The evil teacher put a box over our hands and keyboard so we couldn't see our fingers. The typing software made a beep every time we made a mistake and summoned the teacher. The exams where timed and every mistake you made in the final copy (you basically had to copy a paper document) cost you a grade.

I still fuck up sometimes today due to sometimes using keyboards with US, DE or Apple layouts but in general I'm quite fast and never need to look at my hands.

I took typing in high school decades ago and it was probably the most useful thing I ever learned there