I wish I had taken a picture

Several weeks ago I started some seeds for my garden. I had a bit of a surprise when I checked on them the other day. I lifted the dome off the cheap plastic incubator-thingy. Amongst the neat rows of cute, baby plants was an abomination. It was a many tentacled vision of (very mild) horror nestled in the tray (okay, it was more like brief confusion, than horror). It was the sort of thing that gives you a fleeting moment of What is that? What is that?!?

Brief confusion because I realized that the hairy white tentacles emerging from the soil were the roots of one of the seedlings and the damn thing had sprouted upside down! I pulled it out of the dirt and, sure enough, the leaves were in the ground. How does that even happen? As a plant you've got, like, three jobs to do: photosynthesize, make oxygen, and grow towards the light (upwards), oh and give people hay fever. If you, as a plant, fuck one of these up then the future does not look bright for you.

I think I have a retard plant.