The Math Teacher

I’ve got to take a math test. My teacher has fled. He set up the test for us and then disappeared. He is a subversive, a terrorist, hiding from the law People are waiting to arrest him when he returns. He’ll be back at 4pm on Friday.

I take the first two parts of the test. They are very easy. I am surprised. They are nothing like what I expected. I walk through an area that is set up with riddles and puzzles. That is the first part of the test. They are simple to solve. The second part is even easier. So after taking these two parts I go off to do something else. I almost forget to return. But I still have the third part of the test to take.

It is Friday at 3pm, dam. I run in to take the rest of the test. I realize that this part isn’t easy. There are tanks full of marine animals. Fish, starfish, turtles, all kinds of different critters. At the end there are some complicated equations about temperature. I realize this is a very difficult equation to solve. I run out to find paper. I’m in a flurry. I only have 10 minutes to finish the test. Police and military people are every where anticipating the math teachers return. They have closed off the room now and they won’t let me back in.

I scribble something on the paper, more an excuse than an answer. My teacher is arrested but I manage to get in to see him. They are going to let him grade our and then arrest him. I tell him what happened and he just laughs, tells me not too worry, then he jumps off a pier into the ocean and swims away.