And, enjoy:
Today I was walking around the room, and a kid was telling a very suspenseful and dramatic story about driver ed or something, and gesticulating, and as I was walking up behind him, his gesticulating hand crashed right onto my boob. Not like a minor brush, either. He got an unignorable handful. Thank goodness I was wearing a bra today.
He snatches his hand away as if he was burned. I'm making a wide-eyed, silent-scream "!!!!" face at him; he's making the same face back at me.
In my misguided attempt to use humor to diffuse the situation, I say probably the worst possible thing of all things I could say at that moment,
"Geesh. The last guy who did that bought me dinner first."Child: mortified. Classmates: in hysterics. Somehow, we got on with a math lesson.
So THEN, after school, I look up from my desk, and his mom is standing at my door. I think, "Oh, nooo" and brace for impact.
But, no, she just happened to be at school, and wanted to say hi and check in.
Sentence. Deferred.
12 comments:
LOL I stopped laughing just long enough to post this comment.
Hilarious!
Thanks for the laugh!!
Kate, can I buy you dinner?
Kidding. That was hysterical!
Kate, I had such a terrible day today. I really needed a laugh. Thanks for sharing.
Well played :) I approve!
No way is that boy going to tell his mama what happened!
I'm still laughing.
The worst part is the bracing thing...
but I bet it is not forgotten, but not spoken about.
Why was he talking about driver ed? Was his group done with an activity?
How absolutely funny! I think you handled it well, and I agree, he's not going to go home and tell his mom *anything* about it.
Kate, you might want to read this article:
Radford, L. 2009. Why do gestures matter? Sensuous cognition and the palpability of mathematical meanings. Educational Studies in Mathematics 70, no. 2: 111- 26.
lol. sensuous cognition and palpability.
You say that you wore armor today, as if that is not typical. That is a bit salacious.
I heard a story from my wife. She was observing a math class being taught by a young attractive female math teacher. A male student was solving a problem on the whiteboard for the class. The teacher was sitting on a high stool watching, with the class. The student had to get down on his knees to finish his solution. The math teacher, a female, said "Wow, it's like porn for math teachers--a guy on his knees doing math." The class thought it was funny, and no parents or administrators found out as far we heard. I thought it was a bit risky for a teacher to say such things. If it had been a male math teacher and a female student, I am sure there would have been more trouble.
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