Bob: "Can we ask homeless people to be in our video? Like, as the factionless?"
Me: (severe tone) "Use your good judgment, Bob."
Bob: (thinks for a second, then turns to his group) "Let's do it!"
and later...
Bob: "Are we allowed to have guns in our video?"
Me: "Um, I don't care, but if you use guns, you HAVE to ask your parents first."
Bob: (haha) "Yeah, okay." (eye roll)
Me: "I will find out if you didn't ask your parents first."
Bob: "Uh, sure."
Me: "Seriously."
Bob: "Okay-ay." (smirks at friends)
Me: "If I see a gun in your video, I will call your parents and ask them if they were aware you were using one."
Bob: (stops) "Oh. Well. Okay then."
Me: "What assumption are we supposed to always be operating under?"
Bob: "Ms. Sefcik is smarter than we are."
Me: "That's the one."
(handing out papers)
Nick: (seeing that James has earned a 100) "James, you're such a nerd."
James: "Sorry."
Me: "What?! Don't apologize for doing well. What kind of friends are you?"
Nick: "The kind that bring him down so that he can pick himself back up."
James: "It just hurts."
During afternoon study hall:
(a roll of pink duct tape has surfaced in the back of the room)
Me: (looking over at a girl who now has a mouth covered in pink duct tape) "HEY!"
(both boys look up midway to putting another piece of duct tape on the girl)
Dan: "Yeah?"
Me: "Whose duct tape is that?"
Dan: (points at Hilary) "It's hers."
Me: "Oh. Okay."
(they continue)
(a few minutes later)
Hilary: "Mmmmeehhhharmmmmmmm!"
Me: (look up) "Oh my god!"
(Jack's head is now wrapped with duct tape)
Hilary: (rips off her tape) "You're ripping out his fro!"
Dan: "Oh, man. Haha--look at those little hairs!" (shows another boy the tape he just took off Jack's head)
Jack: "Rwmarrrahh!"
Dan: "Good thing his mouth was taped shut. I'm pretty sure that was a bad word."
Me: "Okay. Given Hilary back her tape. We're done now."
Jack: (pulls tape partway off his mouth) "Wait! Can he please tape my legs first?"
Me: "You're so weird. Why do you want him to tape your legs?"
Jack: (Jack and Dan look at each other) "Because it's fun." (obviously)
