Well many of you have heard many of my unfortunate accidents in my teaching adventure, but I thought I would journal them here for the sake of a good laugh.
"Teacher Down" (Spring 2005)
I stood in front of the class, keeping their full attention as we discussed the plan for the day. I did this while I leaned on the rolling cart, holding it with both hand. I was standing one-footed with my heel tucked behind the other leg (think flamingo). Unbeknownst to me, my sandal heel had gotten caught in the cuff of my capris. Soon after I lost my balance a bit, but was unable to free my foot. The rolling cart slid further and further from my feet as I grasped it for dear life. In what seemed like super-slow motion, I collapsed to the floor, while I still clung to the cart. At this point, all of my student's jaws were on the floor... shocked and afraid to laugh. I wanted to laugh but I was still stuck on the floor, trying to free my foot. It finally made it's escape, and I was able to stand and give my class the go ahead to laugh their asses off!
"Wardrobe Malfunction #1" (October 2006)
This morning I dressed in one of my favorite fall skirts that I hadn't worn since the previous year. I dressed quickly and headed off to work. Once I reached school I threw on my computer bag and walked to class passing many students along the way. Reaching my classroom I gathered the material that need to be copied and was about to head for the teacher's workroom. Just before I left I did a momentary wardrobe check, straightening my skirt, and dusting off any extra lint. As I quickly ran my hand down the back of my skirt my finger quickly caught in an opening along the seam. The seam had come undone on the spot right over my butt, revealing much of my backside to anyone behind me. I called for a sub for my first period class, rushed home, and changed.
"Wardrobe Malfunction #2" (January 2007)
This was less of a malfunction and more of a misjudgment, but nevertheless something only I would do. I was very excited to wear a new brown sweater dress that I had gotten for Christmas this year, but I needed tights to wear with it. Got a cute pair in a beige shade, and I thought seeing as it is winter I should also wear boots with it instead of heels. Honestly, that was my thought process. So rushed as always, I threw on my clothes and was off to school. Walking to class again from my car, passing students along the way, I felt as if I was attracting an unusual amount of attention. Reaching my class I reinspected my outfit. Taking off my coat, sun shining through the window, my entire outline was illuminated through the dress. SEE THROUGH!!!! On top of that, the beige tights were no longer beige in the sunlight. They were now shimmering gold! I was stuck wearing my coat all day, even though I was sweating bullets. And despite this, there were apparently still comments flying amongst the boys. Not because of the see-through dress, but because of the way the boots, tights and just above the knee dress looked. SO THE INAPPROPRIATE TEACHER!!!
"Spilt Milk" (Today)
So this morning I was enjoying a Starbucks latte while my 2nd period AP class reviewed for their test. As I was just about to have them put their notes away to begin the test, I took another sip of my drink. Unfortunately as I brought the cup to my mouth the lid slipped loose and latte splashed down my chest and all over the floor. The class had all looked up at this point, watching it all. I stood there in a puddle with the coffee dripping off my face, soaking my red sweater. We laughed hysterically and it actually cleaned up pretty well. You could hardly tell I spilled on myself.
This concludes this edition of my Accident Prone Journal, however I am sure there will be many more to come. Love to hear some of your embarrassing moments too!
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6 comments:
You should start a slapstick routine.
My class is a slapstick routine.
very nice very nice! it makes you that much more human to the students. I can't really remember what I've done or what's happened to me in fron of classes.
I did cut myself pretty bad in front of my first period last year. I was cleaning the overhead and there was a spot of dust underneith the glass so I decided I would take the glass off well to my strength I broke the corner of it off. So I put it back on and proceeded to get my lysol cleaning wipe and cleaned the overhead and wham cut my finger blood everywhere. I just kind of laughed it off but inside my head I was cussing up a storm it hurt so bad especially with the lysol going in the cut.
I think I did that Teacher Down bit once.
Wardrobe Malfunction 1 (Spring 2006)
I was testing a kid and when I bent over I heard rrriiipp. You guessed it I spilt my pants and had to wrap my jacket around my waist for the rest of the day.
but what about sally jessi glasses?
I am so frustrated about that! I found a picture that I tried to scan to my new computer but I guess I need to download software to be able to do that... even though it recognizes the printer that the scanner is a part of. So I scanned it to my old computer and emailed to the new. Once opened the quality was too poor to even tell. So needless to say, I am still working on my Sally Jesse Raphael post.
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