So we meet his teacher, goatee and sunglasses...we live in the boonies and yet there’s something here like he’s trying to be a player.
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You know what I don’t miss? Parent teacher conferences.
Most of Rocketkid’s teachers were lovely, but we had two that still stick out in my mind as sad/hilarious.
The first one, he was in elementary school. The teacher said it was ‘important’ for us to come in.
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So we meet his teacher, goatee and sunglasses...we live in the boonies and yet there’s something here like he’s trying to be a player.
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Anyway, we sit does in the kid chairs, he’s behind his desk, again, weirdly focused on ‘power,’ somehow.
No idea why,
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And he says to me, ‘So, I hear you’re a writer.’
What?
I tell him yes, I write comics and some animation and stuff.
He says. ‘I looked you up.’
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Brrrr.
Teaching is a hard job, all respect and love to them but...that was weird!
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So again, we were extremely worried.
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We are very concerned, we have no idea what’s going on.
We sit down, she looks at us like a concerned teacher does, but she doesn’t know how to tell us this awful, concerning thing.
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Which makes it all much worse, and we’re getting more anxious. It’s a ‘you’d better sit down’ moment for sure.
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And this is the thing. For a moment, all I wanted to do in the world was pretend to be shocked and horrified.
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“Oh, god, why hast thou FORSAKEN us and delivered of our loins that most foul beast, the NERD?!!?”
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We are toast.
We are DONE.
And we just both burst out in hysterics, laughing like deranged hyenas.
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And that just made it more hilarious.
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A NERD!
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I am positive she went right to the teacher’s lounge and said...
“I just met the worst parents ever.”
That was a good day.
♥️♥️♥️♥️
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