Ryan’s geometry book has been sitting on top of the dryer for about two weeks.\u00a0 I finally got tired of looking at it and asked him about it this morning.\u00a0 “Oh yeah, that’s our book,”\u00a0 he said.\u00a0 I was a little confused.\u00a0 I don’t remember buying a geometry book.<\/p>\n
“They wouldn’t take it back because the edges are all frayed since it’s been in my backpack.”\u00a0 Apparently the book is the first in a two part series and when the teacher collected them his fell in the ‘you’ve got to be kidding me, you think we’re going to take that thing back?<\/em>‘ category.\u00a0 It did look pretty bad.<\/p>\n “So did the book cost you any money since they won’t take it back?” I asked.<\/p>\n “Yeah, fifteen bucks.”\u00a0 He did not look happy.<\/p>\n I had to chuckle at his next words, “I am so not going to use the other book.\u00a0 It’s upstairs in the cupboard and I’m not touching it.\u00a0 I’m going to use hotmath.com instead.\u00a0 It’s going to be brand new when I return it.”\u00a0 He was on a roll.\u00a0 I started laughing.<\/p>\n I’ve written about Ryan and his late library book before.\u00a0 I didn’t even know about\u00a0the late book fee\u00a0until I found some change in his backpack.\u00a0 Same with the geometry book.\u00a0 I didn’t even know he needed to replace the book until I got sick and tired of looking at it on top of the dryer.<\/p>\n