1. You could never half-ass your science projects.
2. Your parents brought their work habits home, so everything was sanitized...
3. ...or had stickers on it.
4. You've been tempted to cheat by looking at your mom or dad's teacher editions.
5. It took you a while to realize that your friends' parents didn't have the summer off like yours.
6. And at the end of summer you spent at least one week helping them set up their classroom.
7. Your parents were usually good friends with your teachers.
8. And of course your principal.
9. Which meant you couldn't get away with slacking off or getting in trouble.
10. You got a lift — and lecture — every single day on the way to school.
11. And you always hid when your friends saw you getting dropped off.
12. They always made sure you were never late.
13. And they pushed perfect attendance on you...
14. ...because you had to go to school no matter how bad the weather was outside...
15. ...or how sick you felt.
16. Their students would call them "Mrs." or "Sir" in public, which always threw you off.
17. You felt even more pressure than your friends to get good grades, because for your parent-teacher, education was always the most important thing.
18. You've had to deal with corny teacher humor.
19. You've been on countless shopping excursions to teacher supply stores.
20. And your home was always overstocked with classroom essentials.
21. Your parents graded at home nonstop.
22. And you knew better than to bother them during an intense session.
23. Since they always had homework, you could never get away with not doing your own.
So even though they frustrated you at times...
