Today's OneWord: Clever

The teacher marched up to my desk with a speed akin to that of a horse having just been stung by a hornet, slapping a sheet of paper down like Zeus casting down a lightning bolt. "You think you're pretty clever, huh?" she barked.

I stared at her. "I don't know what you mean."

She jabbed a fat finger at what I now recognized to be my math test. "I don't tolerate cheating! There's no way you got all the answers correct!"

"But isn't that kind of the entire point?" I asked. "To get all the answers right on a test?"

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