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Post by candice on Jan 18, 2007 22:01:48 GMT -5
I have the greatest teaching story too, since I'm posting, I might as well put it up. Last year was my first year teaching and I was really nervous, especially because I was teaching parenting. I have no kids, I just lost my virginity on my honeymoon the week before school and I know nothing about anything in the course which is mostly about marriage roles, sex and child rasing. Well, I guess I knew more than I thought. I decided to break the ice right away and get the sex education out of the way. I figured, sex is a huge topic with teens, I'll talk about it, I'll break the ice, they will know I'm open to anything they need to talk about. Well, it was all going fine. We were going over the history of AIDS when my first hand shot up. I asked her what she wanted to know and out of nowhere, she said "miss, does it really get stuck during anal sex?" Now, I did say that I would answer any questiosn they had, on any topic, to the best of my ability. But, come on! So, I asked if she really wanted to know or if she was just trying to embarass the new teacher. Of course, all the kids are riveted at this point right. She says she really wants to know. Now, I grew up watching sue jo hansen - the sunday night sex show therapist, so since she wanted to know, I explained all the do's and don't about anal sex and regular intercourse to a group of seniors. Can you imagine. I had been teaching three days! On the plus side, they trusted me after that. On the down side, I know more about the teenage brain then I want to now cause they really do tell me everything and ask me anything.
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Post by ouchy on Jan 18, 2007 22:17:46 GMT -5
LOLLL wow!
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Post by erzulie on Jan 19, 2007 16:40:18 GMT -5
Speaking of laughing hysterically...have you ever been trying to tell someone a funny story and been unable to get the story out because you were laughing hysterically? That's happened to me lots of times. One time that stands out is when I was in high school. A friend of mine had told me a very funny story, I can't remember where she said she heard it but supposedly it was true. This is what happened in the story my friend told me: A woman was grocery shopping and had just put her groceries in the back seat of the car and was about to drive away. Well, one of the things she had bought was a thing of biscuit dough (UK users please go here farm1.static.flickr.com/2/1391594_15a763a08e.jpg to see what i mean by biscuits; what we call biscuits are not even remotely like cookies). I think it was a very hot day, and before she could even start her car the biscuit dough exploded. It made a loud popping sound that the woman thought was a gunshot, and when the dough hit her in the back of the head she thought she had just been shot. She grabbed the back of her head and lay very still waiting for help to arrive. Some time later, somebody else was walking to his car and saw the lady just sitting there with her eyes shut, looking very pale. He went over to her and asked if she was okay and she told him, "I'm holding my brain in." Right, so one night at dinner I decided to tell that funny story to my whole family. Everyone was there--my parents, both my sisters, my brother, both my brothers-in-law, and a friend of mine (not the same one who told me the story). Problem was, when I got to the part where the lady said "I'm holding my brain in," I couldn't get the words out because I was laughing too hard. I kept trying to calm myself, but every time I tried to say it I just dissolved into laughter. It probably took me a good 10-15 minutes to get the punchline out and when I finally did, my brother-in-law (actually I think he was only dating my sister at the time) said, "You know watching you try to tell the story was a lot funnier than the story itself."
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Post by erzulie on Jan 19, 2007 16:49:08 GMT -5
Ok, I looked up the biscuit dough story online and it's definitely not true, just an urban legend. It's too bad, it's such a funny story!
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Post by cherry on Jan 20, 2007 8:16:05 GMT -5
I am terrible for laughing at things, like stuff you should NOT laugh at, things I think of in the middle of lectures (and people know I'm not laughing at how many different types of concrete there are...) and trying to tel people stuff. The worst one was a funny dream I had, and i woke my boyfriend cos I was laughing in my sleep. When i tried to tell him, i was laughing so much he fell back asleep... I am such a kid at heart I am very easily amused but easily bored so I'm always chuckling to myself in lectures!
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Post by ouchy on Jan 20, 2007 12:52:10 GMT -5
erzulie, lol!
cherry, lol! That reminds me of my freshman year in college! A guy I befriended in my zo class agreed to come with me to a seminar that all of the biology geeks had to attend. It wound up not being about biology but rather about the "Physics of Rainbows." (LOL. I'm laughing while I type this.) Well, the lady presenting was Asian Indian, so she had the whole accent thing going on. I LOVE accents, and LOVE foreign national jokes (Most of my family are foreigners.). She had a verbal tick that wouldn't quit!!! After everything, she would say, "Okay." My friend and I purposely sat in the back when we saw the lady dressed in a salwar kameez-type outfit, bc we knew there was a chance she would have an accent and there was a good chance we'd be cracking up...and we didn't want to disturb anyone. Anyway, we started writing down funny things she would say. The funniest quote made its debut on the front of my notebook cover, "Okay. So, picture here of parking lot with rainbow. Water droplet reflecting. Okay." LOLLLLL this probably is just the stupidest post anyone has ever read, but to this day, my friend and I still quote that line...and laugh hysterically. While laughing during the lecture, my friend wound up spitting out a mouthful of Sprite soda into the lady's hair in front of him. We were really glad that we were in the back row, since we wound up having to leave about 15 min. early...bc we had too difficult a time trying to keep quiet!
The really funny thing is when you can get your professor to start cracking up!
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Post by cherry on Jan 27, 2007 14:22:47 GMT -5
I fell asleep in a lecture yesterday, and when i woke up (I had my head propped on my hand and my mouth was wide open, I think I was snoring cos a boy sitting nearby was looking at me in horror) my lecturer was looking at me and looked really amused. Bearing in mind she's not my biggest fan, I'm surprised she didn't shout at me!
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Post by erzulie on Jan 27, 2007 15:15:20 GMT -5
I can tell you a story far more embarrassing than that, at least for the person involved.
In one of my college classes that took place in a big lecture hall, there was this thing that was kind of like an overhead projecter, only fancier. it basically had a little camera that took a viddeo of whatever was under it and sent it digitally to a big screen, so the teacher could put anything she wanted to show us under the camera and there it would be in full color. One day while teh professor was lecturing, she mentioned that some people were falling asleep in class and needed to wake up. Then she started twisting the camera and aimed it right at a girl who was dozing off in the middle of the room and zoomed in on her. Someone nudged the girl and she opened her eyes to see herself, larger than life, on that huge screen at the front of the room. I bet that was one of the most shocking experiences of her entire life!
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Post by ouchy on Jan 27, 2007 15:32:56 GMT -5
LOL!!!! That's great!!!
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Post by ouchy on Jan 27, 2007 15:36:21 GMT -5
One time...at band camp...! JUST KIDDING! One time in my botany class, we were going over different plants around campus and what they can be used for to heal different things and which ones were the basis for pharmaceutical drugs in use today. Well, the professor came to one plant, which she said was "used to help with genital warts." A boy who sat two rows behind me raised his had about 5 minutes later and asked, "What did you say that one plant was that can be used for the genital warts?" Needless to say, everyone stopped, turned back to stare at the boy, and make a mental note. lol. The boy just kinda' sat there, I'm assuming thinking, "Oh SH**! Was that out loud???!?" The professor said, "Why don't you come talk to me after class." Then the lecture continued. It was so bizarre and surreal!!!!
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Post by cherry on Jan 28, 2007 8:18:24 GMT -5
Hmmm I bet everyone gave him a wide berth at parties after that haha I know one guy who fell asleep once, and the lecturer musta noticed he did it a lot cos he said 'and look at that he's asleep again...' just as everyone turned to look at him, he let out this hugely loud fart and woke himself up. He didn't seem to realise why everyone was laughing or why he had woken up, but when his friend whispered to him he went bright red and left about 10 minutes later! I couldn't stop sniggering to myself though, cos I think about things and they set me off again, so the lecturer stopped again and asked if I was still laughing at that, and did i want to go get a drink... luckily I didn't see the sleepy/farty guy at the shop cos i woulda laughed in his face!
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Post by Nari on Jan 29, 2007 23:57:15 GMT -5
Okay you have me laughing hysterically here. Here goes my story. My husband was cracking my back by wrapping his arms around me real tight and squeezing, just as he has done a million times in the past. This time in particular he squeezed and I farted. Now.. I didn't know that I had gas built up or I would not of let him to this. And much like Ouchy, I was raised that you do it privately and lady like. So you can only imagine the embarrassment! I laugh uncontrollably when embarrased and boy I almost peed on myself from laughing so hard. To this day when he goes to crack my back or gives me a big bear hug he says.."You're not gassy are you"? LOL I have a most embarrasing moment too. Should we start a new thread on that one? Or post it in Just for fun?
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Post by Nari on Jan 29, 2007 23:57:55 GMT -5
LMAO.. uh never mind.. I see that we are already in just for fun! DUH!! Shows what a weirdo I am. LOLOL
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Post by ouchy on Jan 30, 2007 0:12:14 GMT -5
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!! I actually DID wet my pants a bit from laughing too hard one time when my husband, then fiance, was tickling me and wouldn't quit! I was belly laughing like a baby! And, subsequently, wet my pants (a bit) like a baby!
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Post by erzulie on Jan 30, 2007 17:39:52 GMT -5
And he married you anyway. You see, that's true love.
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