“You can’t add things that are of different types!” This objection to the “addition” of scalars and bivectors—which is voiced by physicists as well as students—has been a barrier to the adoption of Geometric Algebra. We suggest that the source of the objection is not the operation itself, but the expectations raised in critics’ minds by the term “addition”. Indeed, the ways in which this operation interacts with others are unlike those of other “additions”, and might well cause discomfort to the student. This document explores those potential sources of discomfort, and notes that no problems arise from this unusual “addition” because the developers of GA were careful in choosing the objects (e.g. vectors and bivectors) employed in this algebra, and also in defining not only the operations themselves, but their interactions with each other. The document finishes with an example of how this “addition” proves useful.