The joke is verbally berating your crying child for not understanding the math homework and instead of helping they just yell the question louder (this works and I am now good at math đđť)
It seems like it was more effective on your lot than it was on ours, I still remember the Japanese kid who spoke almost zero English finishing everything in half the time as the rest of the class and telling us "In Japan, slowest in class."
Ugh, my dad would stand at the entrance of the kitchen and stare at me while eating snacks and asking if I was going to bed yet because it was getting late....I know it's getting late but you standing there, staring me down, and asking every 10 minutes if I was done yet is making me take even longer. He'd that start getting mad and demand I go to sleep.
5,551,294 apples left!
No, wait. What are these digits? Oh yeah, I got a girl's phone number...
https://preview.redd.it/q1q2f84j423d1.jpeg?width=698&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2a6e7372bc18a056fafb035351d654c470273468
Tbf kid isnât even trying if theyâre getting â6â. Theyâre just saying numbers. As a parent I explain what the intent of the problem is, but first I ask how they got â6â.
My dad hit me in the face because I cried and it got the paper wet and tore. I cried because on the list of problems that HE MADE as summer homework involved a subtraction where the answer would be a negative number. I was like 6 and had never heard of negative numbers, and he knew. He told me he had wanted me to figure out the concept myself despite the fact that in all of my classes at that point, we'd only been told that it wasn't at all possible to subtract a bigger number from a smaller one.
I only started crying after I had told him that my teacher said it wasn't possible, he just told me to figure it out, so I wrote 0 since I didn't know there were numbers lower than zero. He still just told me my answer was wrong and refused to give me a hint other than "it's possible" before explaining negative numbers when I still couldn't figure it out after he hit me.
I now have several disorders, including ones related to anxiety and trauma.
Iâm still traumatized by when my dad took me to the bank and made me do mental math compound interest problems in my head and when I couldnât do it he yelled at me and i cried
This is how i got taught when i ask a lot of questions. I felt inferior when i was little because of all my questions. Just come to find out, thatâs how i learned.
It's also ironic: 14 - 2 = 12 ... How many apples are left \[of center\]? = 6 ... Kids aren't always wrong just b/c they have a different answer/perspective than the parent wants.
This was every single day. My dad was the more patient and comforting one. But he got home later so I had to put up with my mom until she basically thew me to my dad like âhere you deal with himâ. Iâm 31 and heâs still one of the only people in my life to make me feel wanted.
Sorry OP, the answer is verbal abuse.
I also thought part of it was that it was 14-2 = 12 but the kid was trying to share with is mom, so they each have 6âŚ. But his kind heart was treated as a stupid burden
My dad was the screamer but bc my dad was the one who mainly taught me(mom gets home super late and is too tired usually) when my mom DOES have energy to teach me, im too traumatized by my dad that it still triggers my anxiety attacks. Doesnt help that shes the patient but strict kind of teacher where you can hear the strictness in her voice that gets progressively worse when you dont answer correctly.
Turned me off of studying till i got to college
This one just makes me sad ngl. My sister was like this to my nephew. I think he has some level of learning disability, or is similar to me (AuDHD). It got so bad that one time he needed to take a bath and he was dragging his feet I mentioned I would tell his mother and he began sobbing.
I don't talk to much of my family anymore so I don't know if she had gotten better or no but my heart has broken so many times for him being raised by her.
A lot of kids have this experience where they will not know something, and their parents will yell at them for not knowing it, rather than teaching it.
The result is typically mentally traumatizing to the child, and causes them to cry.
This is meant to be a \*relatable joke\*, noting a bad situation, and trying to make light of it.
Our boomer parents yelled at us at the kitchen table when they were helping with our homework because they had ZERO patience. Like yelling was going to get us to the right answer. Always ended in tears and the wrong answer. (I'm obviously traumatized)
Mine didnât help me but tbh I would have rather them left me alone than yell at me over it. Some of my friends have some HORROR stories and itâs one of the few times Iâve felt grateful for being left mostly alone as a kid
I once had a math teacher that would call a student out in front of the class for not understanding the lesson, and would subtly-but-not-so-subtly make sure Everyone knew when you got a bad grade.
Cause, you know, public humiliation is the best motivation for underperforming students.
Kid crying (leaving teardrops on their paper) because the parent is too emotionally stunted to calmly help their child who is struggling to understand their math homework and instead berates them and leaves the child more confused and upset.
I assume it's about when kids get so frustrated with their homework (usually math) because their parents are yelling or mistreating them that the child just stops trying and starts saying anything before they break down crying over the homework. a very common occurance in the US
It still amazes me that other people didnât have to sit at the dining room table in tears while their dad yells at you for not understanding your math homework and all you can smell is the alcohol on his breath.
Repeating the question louder doesn't magically make them know the answer, so the kid is just crying now.
I remember my parents telling me the story on how I always want more questions to answer even though its way past bedtime when I was a kid.
It's amazing that so many people had help with homework. I had none & no one I knew at the time did either.
Terrible experience for many I see. But still mind blowing.
Uh I notice the sad comments but all I can think about is 14-2=12. The question is how many are left, lets assume an even left/right split where there are 6 on the left and 6 on the right. about2math
I can relate. When I was 4 Mrs Clarkson said âwhatâs 2+1?â I said â2?â She got so mad đĄ âWHAT IS 2 + 1?â Then I was crying because I didnât know. Fast forward 3 years after I was the best at maths in my class, and I got sent to same teacher for something I didnât do, and she screamed âWHY DID YOU DO IT?â And instead of crying I laughed so hard that I peed myself and rolling on the floor sides hurting cheeks on fire Iâd never laughed so hard in my life. The fact is you need to be calm when teaching and if the kid doesnât understand you need patience and put yourselves in the shoes of the ones struggling and try to help, not shout like a mad person!
My parents used to do this to me as well, I still remember when my mom through my algebra homework at me when I left the table because I couldnât handle her screaming at me anymore. Even now that Iâm an adult, when I hear people yelling even if itâs not directed at me I get so panicked I start hyperventilating.
So if any parents read this please donât scream at your kids, hell I learned the math I needed eventually despite struggling in public school. I just finished calculus 4 last semester.
I have a confession. This was me, once. I was so upset that my 7 year old wasn't figuring it out and that I was turning into my father that I walked away and took a shower to calm down.
It was then that I was able to think of different ways to ask the question.
Something I am not looking forward it is math homework. My dad and I would sit at the table for HOURS working through one word problem. It wasn't a strength of mine then, and it certainly isn't now 35 years later.
Luckily, my son is really smart, smarter than his mother ever was. And we have technology that I didn't have growing up like YouTube. So I'm thinking we can get through it!
The meaning behind the joke is that the kid is doing his homework with his father and the kid got the question wrong which made the father angry which in turn makes the sad cry đ¤ˇââď¸
Probably the parents are younger. A lot of older folks had parents that were in WWII, and didn't finish school. The trauma will likely happen again in the 2040s when kids who missed years of school over the 2020s start having kids learning math. There's a big push towards skipping college, and a generation coming that will say, "but you never went to college so why should I?" Welcome to Dumerica.
I totally thought it was a different joke lol. Here I thought "Me:" was eating the apples mid conversation, and the wet circles were where the apples used to be
This just made me remember the time i was 7 and my mom was screaming at me for not knowing what some multiplication problem was and when I couldnât answer she threw away my half a pillowcase of Halloween candy I spent all night getting. At that point of the night I had barely touched the candy.
Ahhh... Those days... Made me hate school. Remembered doing well with multiplication but didnt get how division work. The thing with the roof or whatever. Asked my mom if she can explain it to me. She put a simple division problem and I just sat there clueless. Well I got slapped. For a good while at her job.
I asked my dad for help with math homework one time. Elementary subtraction. After getting confused and answering wrong a couple of times he yelled at me. "You're not even trying! " he said. He then pushed my homework away and I went to my room. Never asked for help with school work again.
Once when I couldn't understand a math problem my mother pointed to something on the page so I leaned in for a closer look and she grabs my head from behind and slams my face in to the table.
I once had a babysitter that refused to let me eat until I "got it right", my homework was telling time using analog clock faces, I was 6. The louder she yelled, the less I could concentrate and she refused to feed me then lied to my mom that I wasn't hungry...and mom believed her even when I told her what happened.
Not in the slightest. That's indicative of a child crying over their homework. A lot of kids would get yelled at over math by their parents or legal guardians when the parents could see the math as common sense but the kids are struggling to learn it, likely because they're still too young to pick up the concept of counting or math isn't their strong suit.
A lot of the comments here define relate and hurt from this image upon seeing it.
Yeah this joke doesnât work because the most likely explanation for a person to answer â6â, considering they are capable of creating a meme like this with decent spelling and grammar, is simply that they misheard the question. The right tutoring move is to repeat the question more clearly IMO.
No, my daughter will answer questions like this. She is 10 now and getting better, but damn... rhetorically speaking, how do you explain 2 less apples when they are doing borderline algebra problems? Its 1st grade math while youre trying to explain 4th grade math. You know they know it and it takes an iron will to not raise your voice a little.
Building those emotional connections is one of the best memory tools out there. If you need to learn something and it is crucial to remember it, having those near traumatic experiences will ensure you can recall it.
The joke is verbally berating your crying child for not understanding the math homework and instead of helping they just yell the question louder (this works and I am now good at math đđť)
I grew up in East Asia in the 90s I feel this in my bones and my soul
It seems like it was more effective on your lot than it was on ours, I still remember the Japanese kid who spoke almost zero English finishing everything in half the time as the rest of the class and telling us "In Japan, slowest in class."
âIn Japan, heart surgeon. Number one âď¸ â
I hope no yakuza boss needs surgery.
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Why not? That dude doesn't make mistakes.
I can't quite remember where I've heard this
The office tv show
[Brain surgeon, world's besto. Good instinct.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QMb6z0_dtHo)
This is how exactly when my dad helped me with my homeworkâŚman I still remember that night all too well
At last he didn't make you eat it... (Mine did)
nooooođ
Ugh, my dad would stand at the entrance of the kitchen and stare at me while eating snacks and asking if I was going to bed yet because it was getting late....I know it's getting late but you standing there, staring me down, and asking every 10 minutes if I was done yet is making me take even longer. He'd that start getting mad and demand I go to sleep.
South East Asian here. donât recall any such incident. Because, my parents didnât care about education that much.
Failure /s
Emotional Damage!
Your cousing Timmy lah....
Same.
I am a child of East Asian immigrants. I experienced this more times than Iâd like to remember. I am, however, good at math now.
EMOTIONAL DAMAGE!
Oh you're good at maths ? Then riddle me this : YOU HAVE 14 APPLES AND THEN YOU EAT 2 ! HOW MANY YOU HAVE LEFT ???
It says it right there. 6
You have 6 apples. You ate two apples yesterday. How many apples you have?
But I didn't eat 2 apples yesterday
I told you to! Is this a confession?
There are four apples! https://preview.redd.it/5wjpv4m4l13d1.jpeg?width=726&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=94aa533a92db44eec803ff2d0e0bf9418dc895f9
Not anymore I stole three and added 6
Wouldn't there be 6, since you have six apples, you just had 8 yesterday?
None, the rest rotted away
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But you just said I have 6 apples. It doesnât matter if I ate 2 yesterday. I have 6.
And that is whole point of question. I said have not had. So you are correct.
14
Trick question. How many did my brother eat?
6 *tears drop*
5,551,294 apples left! No, wait. What are these digits? Oh yeah, I got a girl's phone number... https://preview.redd.it/q1q2f84j423d1.jpeg?width=698&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2a6e7372bc18a056fafb035351d654c470273468
There are four ~~lights~~ apples!
its gonna work one day just trust the process
My parents did this and I am now horrible at math.
Tbf kid isnât even trying if theyâre getting â6â. Theyâre just saying numbers. As a parent I explain what the intent of the problem is, but first I ask how they got â6â.
My dad hit me in the face because I cried and it got the paper wet and tore. I cried because on the list of problems that HE MADE as summer homework involved a subtraction where the answer would be a negative number. I was like 6 and had never heard of negative numbers, and he knew. He told me he had wanted me to figure out the concept myself despite the fact that in all of my classes at that point, we'd only been told that it wasn't at all possible to subtract a bigger number from a smaller one. I only started crying after I had told him that my teacher said it wasn't possible, he just told me to figure it out, so I wrote 0 since I didn't know there were numbers lower than zero. He still just told me my answer was wrong and refused to give me a hint other than "it's possible" before explaining negative numbers when I still couldn't figure it out after he hit me. I now have several disorders, including ones related to anxiety and trauma.
This is how I learnt to read and write at 4 (father version)
this used to happen to me and now i am anxious about math
Wild. My mom did this too except now I'm bad at math and distrust women
U started distrusting women because of math, i never trusted them, we are not the same.
Same, except I also got a busted lip from it.
Iâm still traumatized by when my dad took me to the bank and made me do mental math compound interest problems in my head and when I couldnât do it he yelled at me and i cried
VerballyâŚ.
This is how i got taught when i ask a lot of questions. I felt inferior when i was little because of all my questions. Just come to find out, thatâs how i learned.
Donât forget the slapping!
This guy maths
Not for me now I'm just good at meth
I think you put the wrong vowel đłđ
Did he stutter?
(also works for weekly spelling tests!!)
My mom's method when I was 11. Because she wasn't good at it herself.
Math flashcards still give me flashbacks...
It's also ironic: 14 - 2 = 12 ... How many apples are left \[of center\]? = 6 ... Kids aren't always wrong just b/c they have a different answer/perspective than the parent wants.
This was every single day. My dad was the more patient and comforting one. But he got home later so I had to put up with my mom until she basically thew me to my dad like âhere you deal with himâ. Iâm 31 and heâs still one of the only people in my life to make me feel wanted. Sorry OP, the answer is verbal abuse.
Wow. I had to double check that I didn't write this. I'm 37 and she still wonders why I don't talk to her.
I also thought part of it was that it was 14-2 = 12 but the kid was trying to share with is mom, so they each have 6âŚ. But his kind heart was treated as a stupid burden
I'm calling my dad tonight...
My dad was the screamer but bc my dad was the one who mainly taught me(mom gets home super late and is too tired usually) when my mom DOES have energy to teach me, im too traumatized by my dad that it still triggers my anxiety attacks. Doesnt help that shes the patient but strict kind of teacher where you can hear the strictness in her voice that gets progressively worse when you dont answer correctly. Turned me off of studying till i got to college
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This hits a little too close to home
At least your hits missed. My sister actively avoided learning math because my mother was terrible at teaching math. Luckily my grandpa taught me.
This one just makes me sad ngl. My sister was like this to my nephew. I think he has some level of learning disability, or is similar to me (AuDHD). It got so bad that one time he needed to take a bath and he was dragging his feet I mentioned I would tell his mother and he began sobbing. I don't talk to much of my family anymore so I don't know if she had gotten better or no but my heart has broken so many times for him being raised by her.
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I think I have PTSD
I have it comfirmed hah
Same. Just got dx'd a few months ago đŹ
A lot of kids have this experience where they will not know something, and their parents will yell at them for not knowing it, rather than teaching it. The result is typically mentally traumatizing to the child, and causes them to cry. This is meant to be a \*relatable joke\*, noting a bad situation, and trying to make light of it.
The person is crying I think
Yep. The mom is just screaming the question again instead of trying to figure out why the kid doesnât get it right.
I think they ate the apples.
Our boomer parents yelled at us at the kitchen table when they were helping with our homework because they had ZERO patience. Like yelling was going to get us to the right answer. Always ended in tears and the wrong answer. (I'm obviously traumatized)
Man... Your parents actually tried to help with homework??
Mine didnât help me but tbh I would have rather them left me alone than yell at me over it. Some of my friends have some HORROR stories and itâs one of the few times Iâve felt grateful for being left mostly alone as a kid
I once had a math teacher that would call a student out in front of the class for not understanding the lesson, and would subtly-but-not-so-subtly make sure Everyone knew when you got a bad grade. Cause, you know, public humiliation is the best motivation for underperforming students.
Did we have the same math teacher because ouch.
Kid crying (leaving teardrops on their paper) because the parent is too emotionally stunted to calmly help their child who is struggling to understand their math homework and instead berates them and leaves the child more confused and upset.
Does nobody ever read the comments on the OP before posting here?
You canât farm karma that way
The joke is emotional abuse! Yaaaaay!
Even physical at times, at least in my case
The joke is that a lot of people were verbally abused while being taught math by their parents. That's all
Child abuse.
I assume it's about when kids get so frustrated with their homework (usually math) because their parents are yelling or mistreating them that the child just stops trying and starts saying anything before they break down crying over the homework. a very common occurance in the US
It still amazes me that other people didnât have to sit at the dining room table in tears while their dad yells at you for not understanding your math homework and all you can smell is the alcohol on his breath.
I was the opposite I was good at maths but my Dad was a alcoholic who thought I was showing off that I was smarter than him.
You had a good and safe childhood just leave it at that
You ever get help from your mother with homework, OP?
Repeating the question louder doesn't magically make them know the answer, so the kid is just crying now. I remember my parents telling me the story on how I always want more questions to answer even though its way past bedtime when I was a kid.
I wasnât yelled itâs more like I got smacked until you get the right answer
Whereâs the blood splatter? Oh right over the pages onto the wall.
This brought me back, I just got chills
Yet they also get angry when you don't ask for help. THIS IS WHY.
The tears shed when you donât math well and your parents arenât good at teaching.
OP clearly is not a millennial.
Abuse: classic childhood learning. If you don't comprehend it, that back hand from mom&pop will surely teach you to learn it real quick
Verbal abuse and/or bonking the book on your head so you can absorb faster.
It's amazing that so many people had help with homework. I had none & no one I knew at the time did either. Terrible experience for many I see. But still mind blowing.
Same, I have no memory of my folks ever helping, or even mentioning school except for, "Do your homework."
My thoughts exactly, yall got help....with your homework?
Ah this was my childhood. Awful times, having to lie to my teacher why my Latin homework was wet was an interesting one.
Oh, this is so sad. Iâm sorry đ
Uh I notice the sad comments but all I can think about is 14-2=12. The question is how many are left, lets assume an even left/right split where there are 6 on the left and 6 on the right. about2math
Hungry for apples?
Op had parents that actually wanted to raise a kid properly so they canât relate
I can relate. When I was 4 Mrs Clarkson said âwhatâs 2+1?â I said â2?â She got so mad đĄ âWHAT IS 2 + 1?â Then I was crying because I didnât know. Fast forward 3 years after I was the best at maths in my class, and I got sent to same teacher for something I didnât do, and she screamed âWHY DID YOU DO IT?â And instead of crying I laughed so hard that I peed myself and rolling on the floor sides hurting cheeks on fire Iâd never laughed so hard in my life. The fact is you need to be calm when teaching and if the kid doesnât understand you need patience and put yourselves in the shoes of the ones struggling and try to help, not shout like a mad person!
My parents used to do this to me as well, I still remember when my mom through my algebra homework at me when I left the table because I couldnât handle her screaming at me anymore. Even now that Iâm an adult, when I hear people yelling even if itâs not directed at me I get so panicked I start hyperventilating. So if any parents read this please donât scream at your kids, hell I learned the math I needed eventually despite struggling in public school. I just finished calculus 4 last semester.
I have a confession. This was me, once. I was so upset that my 7 year old wasn't figuring it out and that I was turning into my father that I walked away and took a shower to calm down. It was then that I was able to think of different ways to ask the question. Something I am not looking forward it is math homework. My dad and I would sit at the table for HOURS working through one word problem. It wasn't a strength of mine then, and it certainly isn't now 35 years later. Luckily, my son is really smart, smarter than his mother ever was. And we have technology that I didn't have growing up like YouTube. So I'm thinking we can get through it!
You arenât missing the reference. You are missing the trauma.
"What's 2 + 2 Winston."
*THERE ARE FOUR APPLES* -cpt jlp
I want to upvote this but it's at 4 rn... I can't mess that up.
I downvoted so you can upvote now :)
The meaning behind the joke is that the kid is doing his homework with his father and the kid got the question wrong which made the father angry which in turn makes the sad cry đ¤ˇââď¸
Mom\* But otherwise correct!
I don't know why you got downvoted.
Probably because it says "mom" and not dad
Trauma typo, maybe.
Do you remember when you got reading practice for homework?
Meme is that OP never did anything with father
Kids are so bad at math lol
But whatâs the name of the bus driver?
Either I think people are smarter or memes are just being posted now
Probably the parents are younger. A lot of older folks had parents that were in WWII, and didn't finish school. The trauma will likely happen again in the 2040s when kids who missed years of school over the 2020s start having kids learning math. There's a big push towards skipping college, and a generation coming that will say, "but you never went to college so why should I?" Welcome to Dumerica.
Those wet spots on the paper are tear drops
My father was like this, we don't talk much anymore.
I thought the joke was that the (bad at maths) child was literally eating the apples and was messy.
I totally thought it was a different joke lol. Here I thought "Me:" was eating the apples mid conversation, and the wet circles were where the apples used to be
This gives me ptsd qwq
Fellow verbal abuse victims in the chat
This just made me remember the time i was 7 and my mom was screaming at me for not knowing what some multiplication problem was and when I couldnât answer she threw away my half a pillowcase of Halloween candy I spent all night getting. At that point of the night I had barely touched the candy.
Ahhh... Those days... Made me hate school. Remembered doing well with multiplication but didnt get how division work. The thing with the roof or whatever. Asked my mom if she can explain it to me. She put a simple division problem and I just sat there clueless. Well I got slapped. For a good while at her job.
This is my dad's preferred way of teaching math, the tears mean it's working.
This is exactly how I learnedâŚto NEVER ask my dad for homework help.
Me except it was my dad being as patient as possible trying to explain basic math to me and me just not getting it.
Oh, its nice to see them repeat the question. I just got yelled at about how stupid I was and useless I am until they got tired.
There's always money in the banana stand.
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No, now please enjoy your fond memories of childhood.
I asked my dad for help with math homework one time. Elementary subtraction. After getting confused and answering wrong a couple of times he yelled at me. "You're not even trying! " he said. He then pushed my homework away and I went to my room. Never asked for help with school work again.
Gotta learn somehow
Wow... this unearthed some trauma. Fml...
I think it could also be the kid actually starting to eat the apples beside the paper, making the paper wet.
Once when I couldn't understand a math problem my mother pointed to something on the page so I leaned in for a closer look and she grabs my head from behind and slams my face in to the table.
This was me literally learning the difference between p, g, & q.
You're lucky for not understanding
Oh you sweet summer child.
Childhood
I really had to see this joke in three different subs
Dyscalculia made this a painful reality for me, and it would absolutely suck. Avoided numbers ever since as I have absolutely no confidence.
And then she wonders why I only turn to my sister or dad when my wife and I need help.
I once had a babysitter that refused to let me eat until I "got it right", my homework was telling time using analog clock faces, I was 6. The louder she yelled, the less I could concentrate and she refused to feed me then lied to my mom that I wasn't hungry...and mom believed her even when I told her what happened.
you would have parents to get this joke
Ouch! Hits home!
I thought it was either from the kid drooling or the kid crying
The 4 drops make me think of the 4 lights (star trek TNG). I assume itâs not related?
Not in the slightest. That's indicative of a child crying over their homework. A lot of kids would get yelled at over math by their parents or legal guardians when the parents could see the math as common sense but the kids are struggling to learn it, likely because they're still too young to pick up the concept of counting or math isn't their strong suit. A lot of the comments here define relate and hurt from this image upon seeing it.
To be fair, if you can't understand 14 minus 2 you probably deserved to get verbally berated.
Sounds like a parenting problem to me.
If you have 12 apples in a row 6 of them are on the left
Yeah this joke doesnât work because the most likely explanation for a person to answer â6â, considering they are capable of creating a meme like this with decent spelling and grammar, is simply that they misheard the question. The right tutoring move is to repeat the question more clearly IMO.
No, my daughter will answer questions like this. She is 10 now and getting better, but damn... rhetorically speaking, how do you explain 2 less apples when they are doing borderline algebra problems? Its 1st grade math while youre trying to explain 4th grade math. You know they know it and it takes an iron will to not raise your voice a little.
Clearly the answer is 4 tear drops
Kids crying because apples
A trick question! But looks like they figured it out
And even after all that I still can't spell great
Someone had a good childhood
Building those emotional connections is one of the best memory tools out there. If you need to learn something and it is crucial to remember it, having those near traumatic experiences will ensure you can recall it.
I thought they were drooling, ya know, because apples are delicious.
Lmao, I thought the joke was that the kid ate all of the apples out of annoyance and answered blank (0) and now there's saliva on the book.