Adventures in Subbing-Enunciate the "T"

I'm tired. In the last 72 hours I have worked 46 of them between subbing and being a fast food middle management peon and a volunteer at church. I sub all day this week, but at least tonight I can go to bed early, which is usually unheard of for me, and I am off from my other job tomorrow, so don't call me in, James' dad (hehe, he's my boss and he reads this). I will get to some more of those posts when things calm down a bit, but in the meantime here are some amusing incidents that have happened in the past couple of days. Hope you enjoy them.

On Monday the junior high school had intramurals and field day, so it was a fun day to sub. For intramurals they played "pinball" which is basically dodge ball, but with a couple of bowling pins on the gym floor corners for each team. You win by either getting everyone out or knocking down both pins. The winners got to play the faculty. It was fun getting booed. And we won. Okay, that was just pointless information, but interesting enough to type, besides, if I take a break from typing to think this stuff through I might fall asleep at the key hr8]9-QA[AQAERTSWTWASHRESFDTGJNSWARTHSWJR;qarpwga;;uw Wow what a strange dream.

After field day everyone went back to their homerooms to get ready to leave. Here is the basic conversation.

Student: "We had a good team, we should have done better, but we have the smallest homeroom."

Me: "Really, who's homeroom are you in?"

Student: "Ummm... Duh."

Me (looking somewhat puzzled): "Who's homeroom?"

Student: "We're in homeroom."

I quickly encouraged a couple other students to chime in on the "duh." I am a firm believer in making "duh" moments fun even at my expense. We all had a good laugh about it, but nothing compared to this from last week.

I was subbing for a world history class and we were talking about the discovery and conquest of the Aztec and Mayan cultures by the Spanish. One of the things the book mentioned was the new foods that were discovered and traded between the Americas and Europe.

Me: "The Europeans got chocolate. Can you imagine life before chocolate? The Americas got wheat, imagine a life without wheat.

Students, suddenly looking very interested: "Umm, what did you say Mr. Spain, life before what?"

Me: "Wheat... (than suddenly dawning on me what they had heard) that's wheat, with a "T"

Students: "Oh, we thought you said something else."

Me: "Yeah, life without weed is a good thing, but not without wheat. I said a "t" at the end of that."

I think they just really just wanted to hear me say weed, but I was sure to emphasize the "t" after that point. Junior high minds.

 --written to Enigma-"MCMXC A.D." and Blues Traveler-"Four"