I lived through a lot while teaching. I got assaulted by a student, threatened, dealt with awful parents, the whole gamut. But when I finally quit was when my principal instituted “Test Prep Fridays.” Every class that had an end of year state test had to spend every Friday doing practice…
On a date in Oklahoma (it’s relevant). We leave the bar and see a toad. Date says, did you know you can milk a toad? He picks it up, squeezes its back, and venom shot right in my eye. I was wearing contacts and I ripped that one out. We went home, I flushed my eye. Next morning, I…
I went to school with this girl who was always a “pick me” type. Twenty five years later she was in the news—she ran for the state House of Representatives as a Democrat and then switched parties after winning. Rumor is that she was having an affair with a Republican Party leader…
That you’ll be buying diapers wayyyy longer than you imagine. I thought diapers were until my toddler was potty trained, 2 or 3 years old. But we’re still doing pull ups at night in first grade, $40/month. And most of her friends are still in pull ups as well.
When I was in a foreign country, I got an insanely bad bladder infection that went into my kidneys. The doctor needed to run a test where they put a catheter in and did a scan while I emptied my bladder. They used a catheter than was way too big and hurt like crazy, then left the…
I had a 9th grade boy who constantly acted out in class and never did his homework, and his mom was POSITIVE it was my fault. One day, the woman shows up in my classroom because the assistant principal gave her permission to observe my class—without even telling me first! Name one…
My grandmother was a flight attendant in the 40s. She had to be a RN to do the job, but she also has to be weighed in to make sure she stayed thin and pretty enough.
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