Too cool for school.

I recently decided to take greater control over my finances by documenting every single cent I spent on a spread sheet and then calculating where and when I was spending all my hard earned dollars.

To do this I first of all needed to learn how to use a spread sheet. Sounds simple enough, but I was initially lost until a crash course in the microsoft excel program had me ready to begin.

As it turns out, alot of what I was doing relied on the basic mathematics skills I should have learnt in school.
I was disappointed by this because throughout my 13 years of schooling whenever I was in maths class I lived by the mantra of "When will I ever need to use these skills in the real word"..

As it turns out, the answer is four years after you leave school and you want to start writing formulas into a spread sheet.

Well that's the answer in my case anyway. And now it has me questioning the relevance of every single class I did in school that I didn't pay attention in.

I'm now so restricted by all the clowning around I did in my teenage years.

I can't go sailing around the world, I played up in geography and would certainly get lost.

I can't start performing basic experiments at home, there's not a single thing from science class that I remember. An explosion would surely occur if I played with chemicals.

I fell asleep in Japanese and now only know one sentence. I won't be going to Japan any time soon now, and with that my dream of world travel fades.

And worst of all I can't travel back in time to any significant periods or events because I messed about so much in history. I don't know when any wars began or when travelling expeditions finished.
If I try go back in time to land on the moon before Neill Armstrong does I may end up being shot in the Korean War because I've gone to the wrong time and place. It's a real headache.

For now my only hope at getting a proper education relies on my future self attending night school to learn things properly, and then succesfully travelling through time, murdering me, disposing of my body and then assuming the identity of "present Brad" and doing all the experiments and travelling I'm currently not smart enough to do.

Good luck future Brad.