Aaron was never going to...
Aaron was never going to become a nuclear physicist, or even a storekeeper for that matter, so he didn't understand why his high school counselor insisted he take so much math. He had argued all he could; then his parents had sided with the counselor. Consequently, he was now wrestling with a practically impossible assignment -- math homework. It wasn't that he had failed to pay attention in class. He had listened. He had taken notes. He had written down the assignment. He had copied the examples his teacher had put on the blackboard, examples which had seemed quite clear at the time.
