Double the Compliment = Half the Value

After I gave my spiel at Back to School Night-- and the way it works is that you run through your day's schedule, except that each "class" is seven minutes long-- and so after I talked to the parents of my third period class, a kind and lovely mom stayed after the bell and told me "I have two kids here in the high school and my daughter is a senior so I wasn't going to bother seeing any of her teachers, but she told me that I had to come see you, so you're the only one of her teachers that I visited" and I thought this was a very sweet compliment, but then when I went inside the English Office, Stacey repeated the identical story . . . a mom had two daughters, one a senior, one a junior, and she was visiting the younger daughter's teachers, but she was making one exception: Stacey's Philosophy class and so Stacey and I compared notes and it turned out that the mom who said this to Stacey was the same mom who said it to me . . . but it's still a nice sentiment, even if it's only half true (or could it be one third true? did she say the same thing to her daughter's math teacher?)

4 comments:

zman said...

Or she's just a liar and saw all her kids' teachers.

rob said...

or a pathological nymphomaniacal liar with a thing for balding polymaths. let's pursue this story and see where it goes.

zman said...

Dave is at most a trimath: soccer, Shakespeare, cornhole.

Dave said...

damn, that about sums it up, zman. remember, she also told stacey this, who is not bald (and is taller than me).

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