Me and My Big Mouth

I shot off my mouth big time in my math class today. In my defense, my partner started it. Geometry is the last period of the day, and I stumble in, exhausted. We've been working on proofs, but no one understands how to write them. If we knew how to provide detailed explanations of things that are blatantly obvious, we'd be writing definitions for the dictionaries. My partner and I squabble a little over which triangle conjecture proves that triangle KILL is congruent to triangle MENOW. Neither of us can prove we're right, which is why we're slogging through this assignment in the first place. My partner walks to the teacher's desk. She is explaining to him why the letters in the conjecture abbreviations have to be in a certain order. You can have SAS, and maybe even SSA, but ASS never works. He takes issue with this. He announces, "I like asses, and I consider them correct." The eyebrow telegraph flashes across the room. He takes his seat and whispers to me, "I like penises too." The class has heard this. I realize what I just said as I say it. I blurt out, "Together?" The class applauds. Thank god my teacher has a sense of humor.