I’m with him on items 2, 4, and 5. #1 and warfarin don’t mix. Aftertaste of #3 killed that – just couldn’t stomach it. Found vegan form. And his list is a little short compared to mine. But then on my last birthday, I drew an 8 and a 9, and also added another med problem to the bag. Such is life in the slow lane.
50 years after I began teaching and we’re reading one of the first student/teacher conversations I experienced. And it definitely was not the last of its kind.
Assigned a short story to read overnight. One student very smugly replied, ‘I don’t read a lot.’ I suggested the one letter grade he would earn with that attitude only required knowing the first 6 letters of the alphabet and discarding A thru E. Don’t remember now if he ever figured it out before reports were issued, but his grade made it clear.
Mrs. O gave this deadline to C to show him he isn’t the only trickster in the room. She knows him so well.