Top Ten Ways to Tell You're a Teacher
1. When you go to pull down your pants in the ladies room, the following items spill out of your pocket: 2 dry erase markers (one red, one black); paper clips of various shapes, sizes, and colors; a grape scented pencil; and assorted scraps of paper.
2. When requesting a refund on Ebay, your mother asks, "Are you being mean, or are you using your teacher voice to scare a refund out of her?"
3. On the back seat of your car is no longer a change of clothes, sexy heels, and spare makeup bag. Instead there is one sneaker, a travel coffee mug that you keep forgetting to bring inside and wash, and a green and blue koosh ball you found in the parking lot that you thought one of the kids might like.
4. On a second date you sit down to watch a movie and automatically pull papers out of your purse to grade.
5. Your INBOX on Facebook is jammed with messages from students asking when the next spelling test is (and whether or not spelling counts).
6. Your weekends are planned around whether or not you've managed to avoid catching whatever it is that the super affectionate little plague rats are currently carrying.
7. Your Christmas list currently has more classroom supplies listed than it does "fun" items. Oh and you wrote your list on the same decorative paper you had the kids write their list on during Art class.
8. The cuff of every single one of your white blouses has an unidentifiable black smudge on it. Come to think of it, it's probably dry erase marker...I hope that comes out with water. But if it came out with water, it wouldn't be dry erase would it...
9. You're the only one done with work at 2:30 everyday and you can't find anyone to come over and play.
10. And finally, you know you're a teacher when the reason you leave the party early is that it's getting late (past 9:00 pm) and you have bus duty in the morning.
God help me...
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Nice to see you again! :)
ReplyDeleteTrue!!!On my list would be added that you have Vis a Vis marker remains all over your fingers because you are too much in a hurry to clean off your writing on the overhead with something other than your finger!
ReplyDeleteOr how about this one:
ReplyDeleteYou know your a teacher when your handmade Christmas card from a student has a skull with a Santa hat on it and says,"I promise never to use dead words again, ever." It warmed my heart to know that she was paying attention to the lesson!
Karli, it's a good thing I wasn't drinking coffee when I read that second comment or else it would have come out my nose.
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