"Mom, are you busy?"
"I'm just trying to write another blog. What do you need?"
"I need help."
"With what? I thought you were studying."
"I am going to study for my Business Final. But I can't find one of my past Business tests - I use them to study."
"Didn't I tell you to file all those papers that were on your bed?"
"Yes, but-"
"Now, if you had done what I said, you wouldn't be wandering around here clueless. What are you going to do if you don't find it - just spend the whole day looking around for it & never studying at all?"
"No-o-o-o."
"Okay. Let me come to your room."
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"What is all this stuff on the bed? I thought you said you filed it."
"I did - this is Business."
"ALL these piles of paper are Business?"
"Yeah."
"Okay, then why does this one say SPANISH TEST?"
"OH! That's where that one is!"
"I thought you were looking for Business tests?"
"I AM - but BEFORE I was looking for THAT one."
"Well, I can't imagine that it was so hard to find - it was the first paper I saw. Where's your filing thing?"
"I already looked there."
"We are not looking any more - we are going to file. You can't study in this disarray!"
"O-kay..."
"Here - what's this?"
"English."
"And this?"
"I.T."
"And this?"
"Runescape."
"Runescape is a class now? You're studying an online game?"
"No, I was just bored one day..."
"And this?"
"Oh, that's my knight."
"Art? I thought you said this was all Business stuff?"
"Well, maybe I forgot THAT pile."
"Maybe. Why are all these pieces of broken balloons all over the bed?"
"I don't know."
"And what is this? Looks like the cover of a school book - are you ripping apart your books these days? Just can't wait to open them up?"
"Ha! No, that's not even mine."
"If it is not yours, why is it here?"
"I found it at school."
"So you brought it HOME? You just bend over, pick up some trash & say, 'Hey, I bet this would look good on my spare bed with all the other CRAP I keep there for no good reason'?"
"No. I don't know why it's here."
"Well, if YOU don't know, WHO does?"
"I don't know."
"What about this pile of papers here?"
"Where?"
"In the Lego box."
"Oh."
"Why are there school papers in the Lego box?"
"I don't know."
"What's this?"
"Oh, that's my brother's."
"Your brother's? How would your brother's papers get all the way upstairs into YOUR room?"
"I don't know."
"Of course you don't. Here, what's this?"
"Mom, you found it! That's my Business test - or, well, part of it."
"Part of it, okay. Perhaps the rest is nearby. Why are there gum wrappers here in your Lego box?"
"Here, give them to me."
"Don't just put them on the bed! We are trying to clean OFF the bed! Throw them on the floor til we bring in a garbage bag! And look at these papers! They were perfectly good blank papers, but now they are all creased. May as well just crumble them up & throw them down there with the balloon pieces. And this glasses case - it's been totally demolished - what did you do to it? Just throw it away; why keep things like this, all broken & ruined! And all these socks! Why are they here? I thought you told me you cleaned up this bed!"
"I did!"
"Which part of the bed did you clean - these 2 square inches over here?"
"Mom! Don't throw those socks- ah, Mom, you knocked over my trees!"
"Trees, what trees?"
"My Lego trees. Do you know how complicated those trees are?"
"Can't be any more complicated than finding half a Business test in this slum you call a bedroom. Son, how can you live like this?"
"I don't know-..."
"We don't just need a garbage bag - we need a fire hose! What are all these Bone books here for?"
"I was reading them."
"ALL of them? At once?"
"No, I'm finished with them now."
"Have I ever shown you those shelves I like to call 'The Bookcase'?"
"Mom!"
"And why do you have one of your Father's Art Culinaire books?"
"I was using it."
"For WHAT? Business? Cooking? Business cooking?"
"No, as a ruler."
"Of course. & what's this RULER for - reading?"
"Oh, there it is!"
"The Business test?"
"No - the ruler. If I had had THAT I wouldn't have had to use Papa's book."
"You DID have it - here, under all this junk!"
"You found it, Mom!"
"I KNOW I did!"
"No, the rest of the Business test! There it was under the ruler. Thanks!"
"Great - see, it is easy enough to find things when you are organized..."
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