Inside the Crazy Town dumpster fire, at the Rainbow Bridge Bat Phone Receiving Station:
{RING RING RING — }
RIO!!!!!! You’re not taking a nap?? It’s 9:42!
{you don’t even understand time, Mom…}
Is it military time up there?
{OMG you’re such a human! Time is in exponents up here. }
HA! So there! You DO know about infinity!
{Did you just slide your own hidden agenda into my phone call??}
That’s not fair to say tho!
{Okay fine, your AGENNNNNNDA!}
Well did you see it!? Does it look like I think it looks like??
{you don’t SEE infinity you, doofus! They labeled you with a learning disability because you already know infinity. You can’t understand small math and small shapes, okay. You are LOSING YOUR MIND trying to figure out where you are ON A GRAPH / relative to the graph}
It’s been 39 years, Rio! The graph is not flat!
{THE GRAPH IS NOT REAL!}
Yes it is!
{OMG. It’s a canvas used to visualize the math you do in your head and it’s where people go to see numbers. You have a weird thing about space, remember …you have to fill in the missing perspective}
Then what am I trying to see on the graph!!!!
{you’re trying to prove and validate your existence in space. It’s a sensory issue.}
Riooooo uhhhhh
{you want to see if you can prove the standardize tests wrong by doing math in numbers and shapes that they can grade. }
Because if I can graph, then do I think I overcame the 3rd D of my learning disability with 1 special ability!
{yes and remember you want to write an equation and graph a butterfly tattoo for your middle fingers}
Yes, but that’s my real hidden agenda.
{You … chase mind-blowing experiences because you got counted out as a worthy learner and student. }
Are you saying I get high from learning?
{No; I think you get high from figuring something out}
Isn’t that the same?
{I don’t know. You’re asking me to help you graph infinity and you can’t tell yourself that story or draw a picture or build a shape…}
Then am I smart or am I dumb?
{You are BOTH! You are an equinox baby! Quit pretending you are not a mathematician…}
I’m not a mathematician; I’m a MOM and a storyteller!
{Then why the Fibonacci?}
I was hoping you’d answer that ….
{YOU ARE STUCK on the fact that you didn’t take Calculus because you thought you were too dumb and now you wanna go back to conquer calculus and physics and you want to teach yourself all of it backwards before you sign up for the class. }
Why would I do that?
{You gotta run the test to see if it worked! Can you make the learning environment work for you? You figured out how to overcome all your learning fears and you wanna go and meet an academic need. This time you can go in there and be “caught up” with everyone and participate and be part of the discussions!!
And math and science and music make you feel alive and you think that’s weird but it’s not and lots of people have a need to keep learning about themselves and find harder challenges.
But also you wanna learn how to write equations for dog behavior patterns. }
Well … it’s a good thing I called…. 🥴
{now it’s time for my nap. I’m gonna swing on a hammock right at the entrance to infinity just for you, mom!!}
WAIT — who was that on the phone?? Was that —-
[[YOU KNOW I HAD TO BUST A JOKE ON YOU MOM!!! —Farley]]
OMG you two are in cahoots???
Rio and Farley are you playing tricks??!!
Helllo
Helllo
BOYS!!!!!! ….
… they’re such a problem.