He showed up at his professor's door at 11pm Monday night with the paper due last Friday crumpled in the bottom of his red backpack, underneath his participation medals and a half-eaten and sticky lollipop. Brimming with confidence that there was none smarter than he, he knocked, ready to hand in his masterpiece. The professor answered the door and immediately sighed with a sound that expressed his exasperation and complete lack of surprise.
"As I told you yesterday, that assignment was due last Friday. If everyone else is required to hand in their work on time, I see no reason that you should be the exception…"
"Who do you think you are?," he interrupted, infuriated. "A college professor who thinks he's smarter than the rest of us?"
"…and, as I've repeatedly tried to explain, Mr. McConnell, you aren't a student at this school."