OUCH!! Sounds like a ringer."Melt these down and make them into 'C's"? Seems to me that turning them 90 degrees to the right would've done the job. But what do I know? I am just a 5-point Ualvinist.
Between the two of you, I'd say you were the level-headed one.(It takes someone with a Calvinist world view to see the deeper irony.)