Pa regains his composure and reports:

[twoeyedgirl]

Perhaps when my dear roommate Mary scanned the classroom and failed to notice me sitting in the fourth row I should have let her sit in the back row by herself. True, both of us are independently predisposed to be look-diseasers and back-row-snickerers when left to our own devices, but when we joined forces and sat together (I don’t know how she

Comments

[brandonkwest]

I really think you should abandon the COE and count your losses. It's only $900.

[a_human_mind]

isn't the phrase "cut your losses?"

[a_human_mind]

I'm count your losses makes sense, but the point is to cut them off before they get larger, not to just tally them, right?

Although I suppose you'd want to tally them just for book keeping purposes.

razzledazzle

[twoeyedgirl]

I can't do it. Simply can't.