Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Just another day in English class

For the record, I quizzed my kids on the difference between cannibals and camels the day after the previous post. It went down like this:

Me: Okay, Z. What's a cannibal?

Z: I'm not falling for that again. It's the green, spiky thing in the desert! Yeah! See!? I remember!

Me: Z, that's a cactus.

Z: GEEZ! Why can't I get this right?

I gave up.

Today's conversation was about cell phone etiquette on the college campus.


Apparently this child had his cell phone taken today.

J: Miss, do they take your phones in college?

Me: J, what are you talking about?

J: Well, will they take my phone from me if they see me using it in college?

Me: No, honey. They can't do that. They won't take your phone then.

J: YES! That's awesome! I'm gonna act the FOOL in college! I'm gonna use my phone all the time!

What do you say to that?

1 comments:

Meggers said...

Tell the kid, "No they don't take your phone away, but your teachers will embarass you in class if it rings or disrupts their classes".
I forgot to silence my phone, it rang, and my professor said "Answer it." So I did. And then he came over, and took the phone said, "Hello, Meg is currently learning about Shakespeare. Bye bye now."