How could she?!

Layla (with a smile): Iman, how do you spell arithmetic
Me (puzzled): A R I …hold on, I need to write it down first. I start writing in the air as I didn’t have a pen handy … T ..ugh this is tough …I’ll just use my phone to type it out.
Layla: Are you going to spell check?
Me: Why would I do that… Okay, it’s A R I T H M E T I C . Why do you ask?
Layla: Well, the other day, Mona came to me and asked how that word is spelled. She had a spelling test and wanted to make sure it’s spelled right. I was in a hurry leaving to work … I spelled it A R I T H M A T I C …
My jaw drops in shock at my sister-in-law’s carelessness… How could you!? and of course she got it wrong?! Me said :D
Layla: ssshhh…Yes! I told you, I was in such a hurry …
Me: I know you teach Biology and Micro-biology but do your students know that you don’t know how to spell?!
Layla: I feel so bad! It was the only wrong she got! She came home crying…saying “how could you not know how to spell? it’s the only word I got wrong on the test. How could you???”
Me: Hahahha… you are such a bad mom, Layla!!

Really, this is hilarious in some ways and not so hilarious in so many other ways…but I find the whole things amusing.

Mona walks by … I say out loud as I look in her direction: Oh someONE doesn’t know how to spell?!
Mona: Are you talking about me, amto?
Me: No, I’m talking about your mom!

Mona smiles and starts asking me to spell words I have never heard of before…

Yes Mona, to speak to your number 1 sentence…so busy that she taught you wrong spelling :D

(Mona is my niece ; Layla is my brother’s wife)

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