The Chronicles Of Nay

Hello happy Wednesday! I hope that everyone is doing well. I am doing pretty well. It is spring and the weather is getting nice! Right now it is the perfect weather in Texas. You can sit on a patio have dinner and talk until the sun goes down. Baseball season has started. The rangers are letting people attend games! Spring is looking is looking great! 

So I don’t know if all of you know but I talk with my mom on the phone a lot! We talk  every morning on my way to work. We talk on her way home from work. On the weekends we talk just about anytime I hop in the car. You might find this strange but I couldn’t imagine it any other way. Well last week I called my mom on my way to work and she didn’t answer. I was a little earlier than usual because we had a faculty meeting. So I called her back after the meeting and still no answer. I texted her an obnoxious amount of times with no answer. So I texted the group chat that is my mom, my brother and my sister in law, Keeley. I told them “I haven’t been able to get a hold of mom all morning” Keeley fired back pretty quickly. “That is annoying” I was like yeah she’s right that is annoying! Then for the next 10 minutes or so my brother brainstormed why my mom wouldn’t answer. Things like “Did she have a meeting” “maybe she left her phone at home” “maybe she doesn’t love you anymore” you know the usual brother stuff. Then a few minutes later, out of nowhere Keeley responded “ooooh you were talking about your mom, I thought you meant a students mom!” We had a good chuckle about it. I mean she wasn’t wrong it was annoying that I couldn’t tell my mom that I left my coffee at home while I was driving to work but it would have been more annoying had I been trying to get a hold of a parent because a student was driving me crazy! 

The more we got to talking and joking about it the more we realized that as teachers we do this all the time. There are things that are “normal” to us that we do on a daily basis that people find crazy or weird. We also spend so much time doing these things that we for sure do them in public. I asked my friends for their best “You might be a teacher if_____” situation. Here are some of the answers I got:

You might be a teacher if:

You have ever ended an evening with friends with the sentence “well it was fun but I need to go laminute some stuff for work tomorrow”

You think it is easier to go to work sick than it is to call in sink.

You have the ability to tell whether a child has to go to the bathroom or not. 

You have saved toilet paper rolls because “they might come in handy for a project”.

You think caffeine should be available in intravenous form. 

While out in public you feel the urge to snap your fingers at misbehaving children

While out in public you tell children to stop running.

It is difficult to name your own children because of past students.

You can eat an entire meal in 10 minutes or less.

You have a box of 5000 pencils but you still buy more every time you go to the store.

You can identify exactly where that noise is coming from without turning around.

You can go long periods of time without needing to use the restroom.

You can silence a room with a look.

You can fix a torn shirt, skirt or pair of pants with a stapler or tape.

You start rearranging children and giving better directions at childrens birthday parties.

You compare pen collections with other adults.

You have nightmares about not knowing things.

You answer “how was your day?” with “I couldn’t work for nearly 15 minutes because someone farted!”

I know there are more but this was a good place to start. What is your best “you might be a teacher if_______”. Or friends and family of teachers what are things that you see that we do that you always chalk up to we are just teachers?