Monday, April 02, 2007

Watching what comes outta my mouth...

Sometimes in life we say funny things without meaning to say them. Sometimes we say these accidentally-funny things in front of a classroom of 14-year olds.

Today, afternoon class...

Tavis: (noticing a student not in his desk, but rather talking to someone at another desk) Jesse, go sit down.

Jesse: (ignores Tavis)

Tavis: (getting annoyed, as this student is rarely on task and often is wandering, distracting others) Jesse, sit down!

Jesse: (glancing slightly) Just a sec.

Tavis: (without thinking, blurting out loudly) No, Jesse. No more secs!

Hysterical laughter breaks out throughout the classroom, including on my part.



5 comments:

grandma said...

OOOOOOOO, Tav
I'm shocked!
Love Mom

Chryslyn said...

Hmmm sounds like quite the script... haha

Darrin and Lisa said...

hee hee hee ... too funny! Well, at least you could laugh at yourself :-)

grandma said...

Ha Ha hA
Love Mom

Anonymous said...

Hi, Tavis,
Well, welcome to the club! There isn't a teacher alive who hasn't reduced a class to rubble. I had a whole class trained to know what to do when I told them to put their heads in their desks at the end of the day (as opposed to books in the desk--heads on the desk for dismissal). But yours is better!
Bev