What did you learn today?

every day when my dad called me when he got off of work, he always asked the same series of questions. he always started out the conversation with "whats up" followed by "how was your day". once we got a little further into the conversation he would always bring up my schooling. im assuming this is because he is a teacher and its his second nature to wonder what his daughter is up too every day. he would then always ask me "what did you learn today". i absolutely hated this question. for multiple reasons. one, because around the time that he started asking this question every day it was in middle school. i took silly classes that didnt teach me too much, at least not like the class options i could choose from in high school and college. although i paid attention in class, i still never felt like i learned something ground-breaking, or noteworthy. of course there were some days that i felt like i learned a whole new subject of something and on those days i would be eager to let him know. but the rest (most common) days that i really didnt have much to say about what i learned, i lied. i exagerated. i twisted the truth. i would tell him basically any assignment that i had in the last few weeks and would tell him all about it like i had done it today. another reason i hated this question is because i felt like regardless of the subject of conversation, it always ended up with that question.