>be combinatorialist
>organizing hotel bookings for a conference which four math department colleagues and I (five people) will be attending
>only book four rooms
>wait for them to either implicitly use the pigeonhole principle (and thus validate combinatorics as a branch of math) and ask why I didn't book five rooms or accept that two of us will have to share a room
>mfw
>organizing hotel bookings for a conference which four math department colleagues and I (five people) will be attending
>only book four rooms
>wait for them to either implicitly use the pigeonhole principle (and thus validate combinatorics as a branch of math) and ask why I didn't book five rooms or accept that two of us will have to share a room
>mfw