As if having the name of Huberta wasn’t bad enough… She’d gone and fallen in love with a man whose name was Hubert. “Huberta and Hubert” sounded doubly bad. “You are cordially invited to the wedding of Huberta and Hubert”. And so on.
Huberta practiced writing out the combination in all sorts of situations. Mind you, she simply scribbled it in the back of a notebook. “Huberta and Hubert announce the birth of their first child”; “Huberta and Hubert are booked on a Mediterranean cruise”; “Huberta and Hubert celebrate their golden wedding anniversary.”
Huberta suddenly snapped out of her reverie when the bell rang. That was the end of Mathematics class.
Oh if only Hubert would notice her and ask her out!
Maths books eh! Made for doodling.
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By the way, was she a pupil or the teacher?
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Are you trying to turn the story into a court case?!
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I only wish I had kept my maths exercise books from way back!
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I was terrified in math class. Never daydreamed. Well, algebra, not maths. 1a+1b = WTF? did I miss the class with the alphabet times tables? And that n= thing. Just give me the blasted number or numbers to figure it out with.
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We had algebra, calculus, trigonometry, and geometry. About the only thing I ever understood about them was how to spell them.
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Ah, geometry always made sense to me–it was about the physical world. So, set theory is as well, but often when it got too theoretical, I just couldn’t go there…
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I was good at Euclidean Geometry but then they cut it from the syllabus.
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Hubert and Huberta do not appear to have the right geometry going for them. Reminds me of kindergarten days when I had a crush on my class teacher.
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Did you end up getting married?
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Apparently not!
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Well your kindergarten teacher would know…
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Ha!
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Ah, very nice. It probably doesn’t look good visually but you should totally give yourself a pat on the back for this one.
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Just read this back. I meant the patting on your head doesn’t look good visually, not the story. Sorry.
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Thanks Alex – I shall probably pat myself all over. Somehow I missed your first comment – I wasn’t ignoring it! These days very little to do with most of my anatomy is not very good visually!!!
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