You are presented with a strange challenge. Someone dares you to count backwards from 300 to 0. If you succeed at the simple request, you will be given $25,000 in cash. However, if you misspeak, get any digit incorrect, or any mistake whatsoever, you will immediately be doused with gasoline and burned alive. Do you attempt this? GO Me, only if I can write it down first. If not then nope. I'll screw it up.
No because $25,000 in cash unfortunately is basically nothing these days and while I am confident in my ability to do the task required...it isn't worth the risk.
300?.... how about dropping it down to 26 instead? The alphabet backward. If I could say the full number [two hundred and sixty-seven for example], I'd do it, but if I have to do the short version [two sixty-seven] and do so without pause, I'd probably say no.
I'd try it. If I failed, I'd pull my 9 and kill the guy with the gasoline can. No court would convict me for shooting some mother****er who was about to burn me alive.