Not Fair

The other day, when I was in class, the lecturer (or Professor) was asking us, the students, questions from what he had taught us in that hour. I guess he must have asked about 8 people and none of them could answer any of the questions he had asked.

Then the lecturer called out my name. Unfortunately, I happen to have the bad habit of paying attention in class (well, at least most of the time). I knew the answer. The first word of the answer was out of my mouth. Then I heard someone, one of the guys who hadn't answered the question, saying, “Not fair”.

I was surprised. I thought, “He couldn't possibly be talking to me”. I turned towards him, just to be sure. Wrong. He was looking at me, repeating those two words again. Not fair?!

I had so many retorts that were building up in my head. But the very stupidity of this statement caught me dumbfounded. I stared at him for a couple of seconds. “What wasn't fair?”, I kept asking myself. Was it that he happened to be an idiot? Or that I was actually paying attention in class?

By then, the lecturer assumed that even I didn't know the answer. He turned away from me, moving on to the next person.

Please, if somebody understands this twisted and irrational logic or whatever the hell it is, explain it to me. Not fair!? Jesus!