My father started the engine. “You’re going. End of story.”
I immediately listed the objections aloud. “One: My current room has optimal acoustics for reading. Two: The toilet in the old house flushes at precisely 2.7 gallons per second—I’ve measured. Three: The distance from my new room to the refrigerator will increase by fourteen feet, reducing snack efficiency by eighteen percent.” young sheldon s02e12 m4b
“It’s acceptable,” I said.
She held up a broken calculator. “And this?” My father started the engine
I sat between my father and Georgie. Georgie immediately began yelling at a player he called ‘Johnson’—as if the boy could hear him from fifty yards away. “One: My current room has optimal acoustics for reading
I closed my eyes.
The new room was strange. But I decided, in the spirit of scientific exploration, to give it a week.