Being told off as an adultWhen was the last time you were properly told off? You know: treated as an errant child rather than the sophisticated adult you are.
The sort of thing that dredges up an involuntary teenage mumble of "Sorry, Miss" whilst you stare at the ground.
Go on, tell us what childish thing you were up to when you got caught.
Oh, and can we have more than one-line answers this time? Cheers!
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chthonic, Thu 20 Sep 2007, 17:18)
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More teachingAgain in Greece. I had a class of 13 year olds who thought it was the funniest thing in the world to crack jokes about me that I didn't understand and ignore me every time I tried to make them do some work. I cracked.
I smashed my stainless-steel ruler down flat on my desk top and filled the ensuing silence with a spit-flecked and scarlet-faced rant that made a few of the girls cry from its intensity alone. Then I told them that the next hour would be spent copying out the dictionary in silence.
And for the next hour, every murmur or sniff was rewarded with a ruler crashing within inches of their small fingers and a roared "SHUT UP!" By the end of the lesson, even the burly boys with nascent bum-fluff were snivelling, and terror shone in every eye.
For my final insult, I collected all of their fevered scribblings, tore them into shreds and threw the pieces back at them with a promise that every lesson would be the same from now on if they kept on being little shits.
Of course, by the next lesson, their goldfish brains had forgotten and I was back to anarchy.
(, Fri 21 Sep 2007, 10:53, Reply)
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