Push to Talk
I just remembered a funny story from when I was taking Summer Classes at HVCC:
Excerpted from my comments at Joelle's journal:
My Psych teacher at HVCC was great. He was really down to earth, but didn't take crap in his class. One day some kid's Nextel went off (when they were still really new), the kid looked kind of thuggish, but the teacher was just like "give me your phone," and started talking to the guy on the other side in speaker mode, with those annoying Nextel beeps."Hello?"
do-bleep! "Who the f*ck is this?"
"Wow. Well, this is your friend's teacher, he's in class right now. Who is this"
do-bleep! "How the f*ck you get his phone, yo, give him back to me"
The professor still has the phone, and turns to the kid in the class.
"What's his name?"
"Murder"
Silence. The prof blanches a little, and then the class laughs. "You're serious, his name is Murder?"
The kid nods, embarrassed, but trying to maintain the thug machismo.
The prof pushes the talk button.
"Hey Murder, I'm going to give you back to your friend now, but he's in class, so he'll have to call you back"
silence again.
"Huh, I think he hung up on me! He's not going to kill me now is he?"
"Let me call him back" The kid said, and walked hurriedly out of the room going "yo yo, it's okay, he's just my teacher" His Nextel never went off in class again.
Classic stuff
That's what I'd want to be like if I was a teacher.
Wow, I just realized that I really miss teaching. Maybe I should start doing some tech classes in the city...
