Crazies

Last weekend I had a bunch of crazies

in my classroom and elsewhere.

But mostly in my classroom.

On the first morning, a lady forgot

her Drivers License, so she thought

that meant she didn't get to sign in.

So she sat through 5 hours with no credit.

Silly lady.

In the afternoon we got her figured out

and if she ever brings her ID, she will

get credit.

Then in the afternoon there was a 2nd

lady who wasn't there in the morning,

and she never signed in either.

Seriously people?

Which part of

"Has EVERYONE in the room signed

on my iPad after lunch today?"

did you not understand????

It's a royal pain to get them credit

after the fact.

Then on Sunday, the first lady forgot

her ID AGAIN! For real?

Still sitting here with no credit!

Good grief.

Oh yeah!

On Saturday, I was working with a

student, making up time since she was

20 minutes late to class, so I forgot

to pre-order my Subway sandwich.

When lunch time rolled around, I was 

trying to decide if I should chance going in

to Subway and getting a sandwich, I only get

20 minutes, that's often not enough time,

or just suffer and hit the McD drive thru.

As I was walking out, a middle-aged, slight,

normal looking man came walking in.

He said "I'm here to pick up a book so I can

start studying. I'm going to come to class

next month."

"Well, ok. When you come to class next

month you can get a book! I can't just

hand them out to random folks..."

He said ok, I told him since he was already

there, he could stay for the afternoon and

get a book and get a head start on his hours.

But at the moment I was leaving to go get lunch.

He says "So what's to eat around here?"

I told him where to find McD and Wendy's.

He says "So where are you going?"

I said "I haven't decided yet."

And I start to walk out.

He follows me.

As we get to the stairs, he says

"Want to give Wendy's a try?"

I just looked at him.

WHAT?

NO!

You are NOT invited to eat lunch with me!

I explained that I had just talked for 5 hours.

And I was getting ready to talk for another 5 hours.

This next 20 minutes is the ONLY break I get.

I'm really sorry, but you are on your own.

And I left.

Sheesh!

He wasn't there when I got back.

I'll be interested to see if he returns for class

next month.

(We have a standing rule, I never get in the car

with a single man and Rod never gets in the 

car with a single woman... single meaning

one, not marital status...)

And a STRANGER to boot!

Ha!

Never going to happen.

Then there were the two guys that walked in

and sat down at 4:00 on Sunday afternoon.

(Class starts at 1:50 and runs to 6:50.)

They were literally smack dab in the middle.

I recognized one of them from last month.

He failed my final exam.

And when I went to an instructor's lunch

last week, the instructor from the next town over

said he came back to her class 

(he had already done her's, failed, did mine, failed,

and went back to her's and failed again...)

she said he was coming back to me again.

Anyhow, at the next break they came up 

to my podium to chat.

I asked what they were doing wandering in

2 hours late?

They said they were there to retake the exam.

I told them they were a week too early!

LOL

So they'll be wandering in next Sunday as well.

Sometimes keeping all the crazy people straight

is the hardest part of my job.

Keeps me on my toes!