I have a religion night class. I hate night classes. Fortunately, the professor is really laid back and the class is full of funny people. Also, because it starts at 5:30, many students bring food with them to hold them over until a ridiculously late dinner. This past week, one student, let's name him Josh, brought a banana in for his class. Josh has also had the professor in some of the other classes that she teaches, so he in particular feels comfortable joking with the professor. Upon finishing the banana, Josh thought it would be funny to attempt to throw the peel in the trash can. As you can probably guess, he missed terribly. What was funny about his miss was that it landed on the overhead projector in the corner of the room. Also, the professor did not notice because she was focused on the lecture. Josh crawled on his hands and knees up to the projector, reached up, grabbed the banana, and dropped it in the trashcan all without the professor noticing. At this point, the entire class was laughing and the professor was so confused.
The funniest part for me was that the professor never learned why the entire class suddenly burst into laughter. Somehow the class kept it together and never spilled the beans. She kept asking over and over again over the course of a few minutes. After 5 minutes, the class finally calmed down enough to continue with the lecture. I am just really glad the professor did not offer extra credit for anyone to tell her what was going on; that would have made for a much less exciting story.
Night classes are the worst, so anything that happens to make it go by a little faster is the best. This story is really funny to me because I don't think I have ever made any shot I have taken at throwing something into the trash can. I am amazed as to how the teacher was unaware of what was happening. I wish I had been there to see that. I think an incident like that really brings a class together by sharing laughter. I am glad you got to experience that.
ReplyDeleteFirst off, I am incredibly jealous of your night classes. I have had several night classes over the last two semesters, and none of them have been nearly as entertaining as yours seems to be. In high school, my class had its own class clown, who would do almost anything to get a laugh, even at his own expense. One day he hid in the teacher's podium for at least thirty minutes, and the teacher had no clue. She spent that time searching the school grounds for him, obviously to no avail; meanwhile, the entire class was laughing hysterically! Unfortunately, she did find him and gave him a detention.
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