I must need my head read

Some of my friends cannot understand why someone with a degree cannot do maths to save themselves.  By the way I don't know from what people want to save themselves.  It is not as if you are going to be be-headed because you get a sum wrong is it?  I tell them every time that I received my degree for Arts.  Not the arts as in painting, I hasten to add.  Many people think an arts degree is knowing how to paint.  No people, I slaved away for years writing essays and sitting exams.  It took me a long time to get the degree and not once did I need to do hideous, horrid, horrendous maths.  I would do the whole degree over again if it would help me pass this dreadful Numeracy subject.  It is also expected that people with degrees are clever.  Well let me knock that on the head straight away.  I am not the least bit clever.  However, I am good at reading, researching and writing essays that answer a set question.  I am not practical, often I cannot give the correct money and trying to add up a list of numbers usually takes a couple of goes.  I might add things up three times and get three different answers.  I have a theory however, that if a maths examiner worked out sums the way I do they would get the same answer as me.  So maybe I am too evolved and my maths are from a higher plane or maybe I am just some knitwit who hates arithmetic and wants to run screaming into the hills.  I must have my head read doing this stinky subject.