August 14, 2012
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spit ball
#whimsh 17 Write a STORY using a grade school teacher as a model for the main character ( 5 pts)
Dear Diary,
That girl. It’s always that girl making my job so hard. I just want to come to work and teach these children how to read, and there she is with that toothless grin and those ringlets and that giggle. I can’t get her far enough away. She’s always talking and is never serious. Then she drags everyone along with her.
Today was the worst though. Surely you know, Diary, that I want to do my best for these children. I’m not just in it for the money. I’m not putting in my time as a teacher until I find a husband- like so many of my co-workers. But that doesn’t mean I want to look any less than my best. Today I really had my hair teased up just right. It looked so nice. And I was wearing my favorite mini dress. I felt so pretty.
The day was going great. Until. That girl did the most disgusting thing. Out of the blue, she just threw a spit ball at me- right in my hair!! She tried to pretend that she was throwing it back at that sweet little angel, Carl, who never goes out of line. Surely she didn’t expect me to believe that he would have done such a thing to her? It doesn’t matter anyhow. Because her filthy spit ball landed in my hair! I was so upset.
I couldn’t even look at her. I did the only thing a teacher could do. I sent that obnoxious, disgusting little girl out in the hallway. And I hoped that the principal would paddle her.
Comments (33)
Rotten kid!
This made me laugh out loud! Needed this, thanks!
@BoulderChristina - i’m so glad.
@Grannys_Place - but she was so cute. (and theoretically grew up)
Hmm was that kid you:)?
HAHAHAHAHAHA. You threw a spitball in someone’s hair???
Nice story. Keep shining for us.
@ordinarybutloud - no. i was throwing it back at that boy who threw it at me first. it’s not my damn fault my aim was bad.
@Inciteful - sweet.
@Grannys_Place - um. yea.
@promisesunshine - oh, I think it is. It was definitely your fault. You should have practiced your spitball aim to a 98th degree accuracy before you…ah, yeah.
Sure am glad you didn’t make her a redhead, otherwise that would have been me.
… Good stuff!!! Keep em coming…
@ordinarybutloud - what was it i heard on all of my elementary school report cards? hmm… something along the lines of “lacks self control”. i believe. well. i never wore a beehive. just saying.
haha! I needed a good laugh
@MzSilver - nope. she was a blond. and very nice. unlike my 3rd grade social studies teacher.
@promisesunshine - you know, it’s not a LACK of self-control just because a person exercises her self-control in a different direction than everyone else expects. In fact, I would argue it’s indicative of a much GREATER THAN USUAL self-control, to swim against the tide. You’re welcome.
I think it was you who threw it.
did this story happen for real?
@plantinthewindow - yup. but i didn’t get paddled.
@ordinarybutloud - yet more proof that you are genius
@xdeelynnx - thanks for laughing.
Hahaha. I’m sure this is exactly what teachers put in their diaries!
great work
My mother had days like that! hehe! She can still recall the names of the “trouble” kids…
Yeah, she should at least get paddled. Oh it was YOU?!?!?! You must have had a good reason…
haha! I knew this was autobiographical. Cute and kinda unsettling, for some reason. I guess because the teachers is such a…patootie.
@distractedbyzombies - i’m making up the teacher stuff. she was nice. except for how i was the only one who got in trouble.
@Zoz36 - it was 2nd grade! who needed a reason for anything?
@murisopsis - i doubt any teacher remembers my name. i was a good girl. really.
@godfatherofgreenbay - thanks
@ItsAll_A_LoveWar - maybe so.
I can picture the teacher with her hair teased and her mini dress…I think I had her for third grade.
ha! good thing your youngin’s aren’t reading your comments (re you being the spitball kid, with interesting aim)!
YaY! for paddling brats!
@Bels_Kaylar - i think they have a pretty firm understanding of just how i was. considering i still shoot straw wrappers in restaurants.
I was on good behavior in grade school. The could hit your hand with an 18 inch ruler or paddle your butt. Also, one teacher would take boys who were bad and make them wear a girls bonnet and sit in front of the class.
No way that was going to happen to me!!
@promisesunshine - you’re too funny! (thank you for always making me giggle
I thought spitballs were blown thru a straw? Then again I also had rubber bands to shoot pieces of folded paper too.
I think they also have pea shooters too that uses straws. In this age of lawsuits I think they reduce the usage of pea shooters because it can take someone’s eye out.
I have seen slingshots and they are even more deadly.
@PPhilip - honestly, i don’t remember quite how this was accomplished. i know it involved paper and spit. and a boy who started it. oh. maybe i flicked it with my fingers- that would explain overshooting the mark. anyhow. i wasn’t trying to poke anyone’s eye out. he started it.
@ANVRSADDAY - i think i was pretty good most of the time. my dad woulda tanned my hide.
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I’m really making an attempt to “stick around” for a while this time. (I come and go so frequently here on Xanga over eight years of blogging). So I appreciate finding new friends and subscribers.
Thanks first of all for the subscription, and second, for visiting and leaving a comment on my latest entry. You mention you like alliteration. I use alliteration possilby moreso than rhyme!
I see you’re multitalented. I especially love to find the talented artists, writers, and filmmakers here on Xanga. We seem never to be “featured” as much as the folks who endlessly quarrel about politics and ideologies!
I’m at work, so only have time for a short comment. You’ll have to forgive me.
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Why didn’t you send her to the Principal’s office? She definitely needed the paddling.
@baldmike2004 - this one is from http://anvilsandedelweiss.xanga.com/766697518/oh-you-know-i-get-little-whims/. i like to play. i do not care for drama and politics. thank you for your short comment.
@ZSA_MD - it was me, when i was in 2nd grade. and i surely didn’t deserve a paddling.