Solve for X or How I Flunked Algebra - twice!

Arithmetic, math, whatever the newest term is, has been one of the sorrows of my life.  From the time I was little math made it's business each day to see how crazed I could become while enduring math time, math class, math anything.  (The word 'enduring' is not an exaggeration. It was torture. Every day.)

Now, of course, many many years later, I realize that I have some degree of dyscalcula. Numbers and I still loathe each other.

Which brings me to the letter X.

How I got into Algebra I - I haven't a clue.  I think the last teacher just got tired of seeing my tear stained face and sent me to the big leagues just to get rid of me..  Math with letters.  Umm...wait a minute....math (that's numbers right?).so when did the alphabet decide to join in.  What fresh hell was this??

My precious letters, my alphabet, my word makers - had they forsaken me?  Me who got a big fat ZERO in most of my math work throughout school,  could read and write at the high school level in third grade. (Although I have to admit, there was a major abscence of any numbers in my stories.)

So, I sat down in this Algebra I class on the first day.  I went with a heavy heart but determined to try.
I had my notebook, I had my pencils, my erasers  - a whole pack, in fact).  I was ready. I was willing. I was screwed. 

There on the black board was the equation:

 a(2) x 15 + 27B - X = 33         

Solve for X.

Up went my hand.  May I have the restroom pass please?  (Since the teacher gave me the pass, with less than 5 minutes into the first day of the school year, I assume the old teacher had clued the new one in on my ongoing love affair with numbers.)

Out the door, down the staircase and through the hallway I went. And suddenly, I got a little spring in my step.  I realized I may not know what the heck the number X looks like but I certainly knew where
"X marks the spot"  - to the girls' bathroom.

Today, numbers continue to mock me, but so what? I don't remember one thing from that algebra class - BUT I can still tell you where every girls' bathroom was in Bryant High School!

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We are almost through the alphabet and will be starting a new round soon.  So, why not give it a whirl and click on the link to the right to join in the fun of Alphabe-Thursday, hosted by Jen Matlock.