Okay yes. This was what I thought it was. My second grade teacher read this to us once, and the thing about drawing the drapes has stuck with me for most of my life. She’s a complete fuckup who ruins everything, but she’s good at baking pies so that makes it okay.
Her whole thing was she didn’t get figures of speech or euphemism. If you tell her to “draw the drapes” she’ll get out a pencil and paper and start sketching the curtains. Which means she should be useless at baking, the second a recipe tells her to separate the eggs she’ll put one in the bedroom and one in the parlor.
Okay yes. This was what I thought it was. My second grade teacher read this to us once, and the thing about drawing the drapes has stuck with me for most of my life. She’s a complete fuckup who ruins everything, but she’s good at baking pies so that makes it okay.
Baking is a rather exact science, I’ve been told, so it makes sense she would excel at it.
It’s simultaneously an exact science but also vibes like “it’s warm and humid today so I need to adjust for that by feel”
Her whole thing was she didn’t get figures of speech or euphemism. If you tell her to “draw the drapes” she’ll get out a pencil and paper and start sketching the curtains. Which means she should be useless at baking, the second a recipe tells her to separate the eggs she’ll put one in the bedroom and one in the parlor.