When someone tries to help you out with something you're doing, but all they're doing is making it harder. The term comes from parents and how the switch to common core math and algebra only made things more complicated and harder, when the intent was to help make it easier
guy 1: *is moving something heavy through a doorway*
guy 2: "let me help you with that" *grabs the thing and starts moving it around on their own and shit*
guy 1: "can you just stop? you're fucking with my math"
When someone tries to help you out with something you're doing, but all they're doing is making it harder. The term comes from parents and how the switch to common core math and algebra only made things more complicated and harder, when the intent was to help make it easier
guy 1: *is moving something heavy through a doorway*
guy 2: "let me help you with that" *grabs the thing and starts moving it around on their own and shit*
guy 1: "can you just stop? you're fucking with my math"
when someone tells you something you should remember but later you don't, yet you remember them explicitly telling you after realizing your mistake. i.e, you spaced out and forgot, hence the name spacing it
guy 1 "hey, I moved your phone on the counter so I could set my stuff down"
guy 2 "okay"
later:
guy 2 "where the hell is my phone? I swore it was on the table"
*find it on the counter* "oh shit, guy 1 told me, I must've spaced it"