Textbook Betrayal

I scribbled this down today and realized halfway through that it wasn't just about textbooks. I thought that it was interesting enough to put on my blog, so here ya go! =)

Just like that moment when, purely out of the blue, your dry, dependable Saxon Math testbook makes an error, telling you perhaps that 6x7=45. Your heart stops and you stare at the lie, the ugly mark of untruth glaring out at you under the guise of seriousness. You want to believe that it's true, but you soon realize that isn't an option. You want to correct it with your highlight pen, but you've been instructed to not mark The Book, as it isn't yours and never will be. So instead you flip to the next page and try to forget all about the small (yet world-shattering) printing mistake. You try, yet it nags at you the whole time. You imagine thousands of other people coming upon the same mistake and feeling the same sense of horror and disappointment. Or worse, maybe they'll believe it. You keep working out of the book, but not with that same trust. You keep looking for more more lies printed in serious black ink on the other pages and when you do find more, maybe you'll leave that book entirely and find yourself a different one.