Well the Ritalin Kid was at it again today… Not only that but Vernon and his cohort (we’ll call him Max – I forgot to tell you he had a cohort! I’m not sure he counts as a full-fledged cohort as he hardly holds a candle to our Vernon, tho) on occasion decide that it’s OK to smalltalk during quizzes. Granted they are MINIquizzes but they are QUIZZES nonetheless. I truly don’t believe they are talking about quiz answers, etc., they are just both rather geeky and then the ritalin-needing thing plus they just seem not to understand normal classroom decorum on occasion (in Vernon’s case, for “on occasion” read: “ever,” as I believe I hinted very slightly a while back)… I looked over and said V’s name and frowned at both of them and then when they looked at me kind of quizzically (a lot like a dog when they get in trouble the first time they’ve done a certain thing… “Oh wait, no, really? Is THIS on the Bad List, too?!” wag wag wag – altho Vernon and Max actually didn’t seem to get it as quickly as a dog would have) so I said softly (and a tad incredulously), “Um… No talking during the quiz.” Seriously these guys stopped progressing at middle school because then (I still can’t quite believe this even tho I was there) they BOTH started to argue with me (quietly at least), you know the standard 10-year-old style retort, to justify why they had been talking, and I was treated to simultaneous “Yeah but we…”/ “We weren’t…” {this is me shaking my head about this even now in the retelling}… I then Really Frowned and actually PUT MY FINGER TO MY LIPS (in a college-level class mind you… mind ME come to that, as I still can’t believe I did this much less that I was actually driven to it) and kind of gritted my jaws at the same time which somehow clued them in that they really had better stop RIGHT THIS SECOND. Impressively, both sets of brakes engaged and neither finished his sentence. (Kinda cool, the power I wield… eyeroll)
In case you missed Vernon the first time...
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