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Objection Your Honor!
How I passed the class but lost the court case.
I was 45 when I was finally ready to go to college. I couldn’t wait to graduate from high school and decided I never wanted to see the inside of a classroom again ever in life! I enrolled to get a degree in accounting. No people involvement. Just numbers on a page or screen. And making those numbers make sense. Control. Order. Yep, that was the ticket for me.
Just as the first semester was beginning a friend of mine that worked at the Pentagon dropped some info. He said if I took two business classes he could score me an interview for a position at the Pentagon. Uh yeah! I’m on it. It would get my foot in the door. After that, it would be up to me. No problemo.
Made the switch, and classes began. About the third week in, one of my professors wanted to see me at the main campus in his office. I was taking his Business Law 101 class at one of the satellite locations closer to home. “It’s three weeks. Three weeks! How can I possibly be in trouble already!?” is all that I could think and now you see why I was eager to graduate the first time.
I showed up. He rolled in. Late. Well, he was a practicing attorney at the time. He pulled up my records and did the ‘oh yeah now I remember why I called you in’ throat noise. He looked at me from behind his desk and…
