uh?

i don't know whether i should feel smart or otherwise, and i'd wager my donuts you don't too.

when your parents call you up to ask how come the quadratic formula does not work for x^2 + 4x + 4 = 0, the first thing that crosses your mind is that they're plugging things in the wrong place. i mean, that's a common mistake, and that's the worst that could happen. imagine if you find out that they did not plug anything wrong, it's just that they took the squareroot of zero to be one. then you'd just sit there silenced.

i hope you don't feel smart if that ever happened to you. because when you feel smart that means you're calling your parents stupid, and if your parents are stupid, you can't be all that smart.

but then again, i've had enough academic beating that thinking otherwise would just make me sink faster to davy jones' locker.