That looks easy!

I could do that!

Oh, but I’ll need to get this…

And…

This?

I don’t have that…

I suppose I could substitute these for those…

Oh…

Well…

That didn’t turn out right

I guess I do need those other things

But I don’t have any money

And I can’t drive…

And now look.

I wasted my whole afternoon

Messing around with this…

Project.

Mom walks passed.

“What is this?”

I wish she hadn’t seen this failure

But I suppose she’s used to seeing them piled on my desk

“Um… a failed attempt.”

“You mean an experiment!”

“Yeah, right. An experiment…”

An experiment that failed.