I don't remember her response, only trying to explain to her what she was asking me to do and becoming tongue-tied, as I often do. [That is when I don't have ear to ear brain fog and memory fails.]
It is easier to type this than to say it. It often is. That is not to say that I can write or type for pages on end. I can manage a paragraph or three here, but I'm not going to be turning out so much as a short story, much. as some of my teachers expected me to do once I matriculated. I'm glad I haven't seen one of them for a decade or more. One of them turned out to be a pedophile, too.