Dave Averts Awkwardness!

Yesterday, a student came to the door of the English Office, looking for his teacher-- but this teacher, a diminutive blonde pixie-like person-- was nowhere to be found, and so I started to make an innocuous joke to the student-- I almost said: "She's kind of small, so sometimes we just totally lose her up in here," but-- in the nick of time-- I did some processing of the situation, caught myself and realized that the student I was talking to wasn't just rather small, he was a genuine little person-- a dwarf-- and I realized that my cavalier-losing-a-little-person-joke might offend him and revised my sentence on the fly, thus avoiding the graceless backpedalling that I usually have to perform in these situations . . . an upset victory over awkwardness!

5 comments:

zman said...

I'm not sure that this qualifies as "awkwardness" so much as "jackassery."

Whitney said...

Jackassery-induced-awkwardness.

Dave said...

averted all that!

rob said...

the most awkward part of that would've been middle-aged white teacher guy saying 'up in here'.

Dave said...

that's the joke!

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