This idea came from a response of Jensen's at the recent Barcelona convention when he and Jared were asked about what they'd major in in college. Jared answered for himself, but then Jensen added, "I'm gonna brag on him a little bit. I would go with math. Any kind of math. No, the guy's like a mathematical savant. It's kind of creepy. You'll be like, 'Hey, so I've got, uh, nineteen numbers here, I need to add 'em all together.' 'Yeah, forty-two.' 'What?' It's a little creepy." So. This is a little tribute to Jared's smarts.
When Exploitation Is Perfectly Acceptable
Prompt: Ridiculous
It'd started when Sam was in second grade, when he still asked Dean for help. Except in math. Never math. It was ridiculous, really. Granted, then it wasn't advanced math, but as Sam got older, Dean decided that his freakish mastery of the subject—which to Dean is practically a foreign language—should be exploited.
"Sam!" he yells as he sullenly does his algebra.
"What?" Sam shouts back from the shower.
"What's the sum of five, thirteen, forty-five, nine, two-fifty, and eighty-eight?"
"Four-ten."
"Thanks."
His brother may be a pain in the ass, but he sure beats buying a calculator.