My girls are finishing school in a flurry of exams. I can remember those days vividly. I still have dreams or nightmares about showing up for a midterm or a final without having attended one class or so much as cracked open one book of the assigned reading. Larry David, the co-creator of Seinfeld and the creator and star of Curb Your Enthusiasm, attended the University of Maryland. A good friend of ours was his roommate one year in College Park. I think they still have them today but do you remember the blue books ? These were blank books with blue covers used for essay type exams. Well, Larry David was living the nightmare. He showed up for a final not having attended a class or read one book. I cannot remember the subject but the story goes like this. He sat there watching everyone else write furiously. Fifteen minutes went by, and then another fifteen, then another fifteen until there was five minutes left in the class. With five minutes left he writes on the outside of the blue book "Book Two". Larry then writes "in conclusionÂ…." and turns in his blue book. Well, you guessed it the professor assumed book one was lost and gave him a C or a B based on his of the cuff conclusion.
