7th Heaven · Season 3, Episode 4
“The Legacy” · Season 3, Episode 4
In this episode: Lucy (4), Annie Camden (2), Mary (1)
Oh no.
Not again. How could you leave your lunch in Geometry class again?
I don't know. Because I love a frenzied sweaty hallway sprint before lunch? Where's the straightest line from here to our Geometry room?
I don't know.
You really gotta start paying more attention in class.
Oh, sorry to interrupt. I just left my lunch in here. Is that my lunch?
I'm sorry, Lucy. I didn't know you'd be back.
You ate my lunch?
Well, I figured if you were coming back for it, you'd've been here sooner.
It's a long hallway. A long windy hallway filled with obstacles that walk and shove and get in your way on their way to eating their own lunches.
What's the shortest distance between two points? A straight line. You know, if you applied what we talked about in class, you might've gotten back here quicker and saved your lunch.
I just don't understand Geometry. I can't do that kind of thinking. I don't have that side of the brain or something.
Really? Because it looks like you're not all that interested in Geometry and aren't really giving it your best shot.
It's hard to be interested in something you know you'll never use. I mean, never get.
She ate it. I accidentally left my lunch in class and Mrs. Reese ate it. My lunch. All of it…practically. And to add insult to injury, she said that if I'd applied the Geometry stuff we learned in class that I might've made it back to the room in time to save my lunch.
Is there any truth in that?
How would I know? I don't know any Geometry.
Does that mean you want Mary or Matt to help you with your Geometry?
No, I want you to call Mrs. Reese and tell her to stop eating my lunch.
If it continues, I will. And it is possible that today was just a weird day. And I don't want to upset you in your weakened and starving condition, but maybe you should take a stab at learning Geometry.
Why? I don't get it, I'll never get it, and I don't see how it will ever help me in my life to get it.
It might help you save your lunch.
I'm sorry, Lucy. I didn't know if you'd remember to come back again today.
No, I'm sorry. I didn't know you'd start on my lunch again today.
You should have. It's called a "given". You see, this situation isn't all that different from a geometry proof. Why Mrs. Reese eats my lunch...your lunch is something to be eaten. That's the definition of lunch. Your lunch is in here to be eaten because you leave it in here. That is a "given". I don't want it to sit and rot, etc. That is also a "given". So what conclusion can we draw from this?
That is my lunch is left in here, you're going to eat it unless I get back here before you do?
Exactly right. Which route did you take to get back here?
The south hallway.
Okay, "G" that's our geometry room. And "F" that's you...famished. If you draw an imaginary line from here to here.
It's a right triangle.
And how could you have gotten to "G" quicker?
By going from here to here?
Yep. You bisect the angle to the midpoint on the hypotenuse.
So, can I have whatever's left of my lunch? [there's nothing left]
I had a light, light breakfast.
Okay, I just came down to say I'm sorry.
For skipping class, or getting caught, or causing me to come and get you in the principal's office so that your teacher can tell me that for some reason my 16-year-old daughter can't seem to find her way to class?
Yes. Mom, Mrs. McKee just reads aloud every day and it's boring. Besides, I can read the book by myself.
So have you?
What?
Read the book?
Well, some of it, but I can't get into it. And besides, like I said, Mrs. McKee reads the thing aloud in class every day.
Yes, but you'd have to actually be in class to hear it and benefit from it. You see where I'm going with this?
Yes.
See, if my kid can't "get" anything, not even the tiniest little morsel, from a classic novel about societal mores, shame, scorn and ostracism, then I look to my kid. Not the teacher, not Nathaniel Hawthorne, but my kid. Of course, now that I know my kid has read and/or heard very few of those actual words, I feel better. Or a different kind of worse, I'm not sure.
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