So I was out having dinner with Astrogirl, and I related the following odd anecdote her:
As I said, I tell this story to Astrogirl over dinner, and did not get the reaction that I expected from her: midway through the story she had a strange expression on her face… as I neared the end, she looked pained… and when I asked her what might be wrong with my phone, she exploded! “BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!”
She spent several moments laughing, gasping for breath, slapping the table, and snorting up snot before she regained control and gasped, “I have to marry…Snort, gasp! YOU??”
“What? Why? What’s so funny?” I said.
“It was your STUDENTS, bonehead!!” At this point she lapsed into Korean, “You’re the mature, Gasp, snortintelligent university teacher! And you got FACED by a room full of 18-year-old freshmen!! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!”
A lightbulb came on (judging from the perception I have displayed during this incident, I am forced to conclude that it is a 30 watt bulb…). My students! Those little bastids!:mad:
*I will have my revenge…*I think, and it will be sweet! I’m gonna… wait! I have no way to know which of my 30 or so students did it! NOOOOOOOOO!
So much for my dignity, I can’t even have vengence!
That was the funniest trick I’ve heard of in a long time.
C’mon. Give your students a break. They got you. Let them sit on their laurals and enjoy it. They just took advantage of a situation. There are probably many Dopers around here that would have done the same thing.
We had something similar happen when I was in High School. We were taking 2nd year Spanish and our teacher, Mrs. Hoika, decided to have the class play this game where we all had to speak ONLY Spanish… No English was allowed. She would play too. If somone spoke English, they recieved the hall pass. If somone else spoke English, they then got the hall pass. So whoever ended up with the hall pass at the end of the hour would get an extra homework assignment.
Ok. Half the class period goes by and there are people who forgot and spoke English. My friend speaks up and says (in English) “I have to use the bathroom”. So now he has the pass and leaves to use the bathroom. When he comes back, he has this big grin on his face, so I know he’s up to something. Then over the loud speaker in the room we hear, “Mrs. Hoika…” and Mrs. Hoika responds, “Yes…Oops!”. Then the voice on the loudspeaker says, “Gotcha!”. Everyone in the class went silent and said nothing for the rest of class. Afterwards, we laughed ourselves silly. We had gotten her, big time.
I take it that your cell phone doesn’t have caller ID, then.
If you really wanted to, you could try to get your cell phone records and find out who was calling you. I don’t know if you ever actually answered any of the calls or allowed them to be completed.
I think it would be funny as hell to find out who did it, wait till after the test and, assuming the person got a decent grade, let them know that you know, and have a laugh with them.
We had a 3rd grade teacher who wore a hearing aid. Especially near the end of class, we would start talking very quietly so that she would turn the volume up higher and higher. When the bell rang at the end of the hour she would nearly hit the roof.
I know, I know, but we were only eight years old at the time. I hope that trick isn’t what made her need the hearing aid in the first place.
As one who has been on both sides of the pranking, this one was quite well done.
Not quite as good where we hid nine wind-up alarm clocks in the French teacher’s room, set to go off once through out the day (one at 8:40, next one at 9;35, etc) though out diferent classes. After the third one, she tore apart the room but only found three more, leaving three more to detonate later, and we, the first period class, had already left. We heard about it the next day, but she appreciated the joke.
Give 'em credit for this one: it was a good one.
And I bet you’ll never leave the phone on during class again, eh?
An elder in our church, who has dedicated his life to wiping out anyone whose phone rings in a service, finally caved last year and bought one himself. I’m been trying to make it go off in church for almost a year now. No luck.
Reminds me of another one we pulled in Spanish class. My friend had a little electontic beeper made that would beep at a very high pitch for only half a second. It would do this every 3 minutes. We hid it in our Spanish teacher’s classroom and let the hilarity ensue. By the end of class, she was tearing the room apart looking for it. We finally revealed the location and she swiped it from us… but we begged her to give it back because we wanted to pull it on our English teacher. She gave it back! and made us promise not to tell that she did give it back.
