things that happened in my driver’s ed class
the following things were written over the course of three weeks of classroom instruction…
So there’s a kid in the front row who drinks orange juice from a gallon jug. Like straight from it. Constantly.
The one student in the back who congratulates and applauds or boos everyone who answers the teacher depending on how they did. Everyone.
Teacher: “Over 200 cars piled up on i-94 last year, people were killed, and over 100 tickets were issued.” Student: “Well, that sucks.”
Question on a test asks when one should use the horn. The correct answer is to alert drivers to your position in an emergency. One kid in the back chose ‘only to communicate with your friends" which was an incorrect answer. The horn is now permanently associated with him.
The same kid asked what would happen if he used the horn to communicate with friends on the driving range after that. Teacher: “you won’t get your pink slip” (its like a learners). student //begins strategizing// kid next to him: !!!?? IS IT RLY WORTH IT KAREM
The one kid in the front dedicated to congratulating the kid who congratulates everyone else
Road rage: the thing the class was most pumped to learn about. The lesson included “quiet road rage”, “verbal road rage” and “epic road rage”. guess which one got the biggest round of applause.
Comment after the road rage film: “they didn’t even talk about the birdie”
The kid who yells “UNACCEPTABLE!!” when we mention something illegal/rude
Statement from teacher after a DVD: “Well hey, I never said the acting was good.”
It’s understood the one student in the back never does his homework. He still gets everything right in class. We don’t know how. We don’t ask.
The one serious, studious kid who always sits in the same row as the rowdy and jokester filled bunch. Kudos to that kid. He’s been through a lot.
Student: *throws empty pringles can at a friend who is nearer the trashcan* Can: *bounces off the ceiling and clangs loudly to the floor* Student (to friend) (yelling): I TOLD YOU TO CATCH IT IF IT FELL
The most tragic thing uttered in class (from the kid in the front row) “DANG IT I forgot my orange juice”
The student who sits next to me’s story of how his cousin drove through a roundabout. by through, I mean over. The middle bit. Doing like 65.
A kid who literally broke his chair. In half. I have no idea how it happened and I don’t want to.
The things we watch in class were all made about 1994. This is very obvious and sometimes very painful.
The 25-minute video during which all of the people in it stared obviously at a teleprompter far away from the actual camera. The entire. Time.
A 30-minute 'movie’ is starting. It begins with a typing text effect. Student: “Is it gonna do this for the whole movie?”
Student to teacher: “So how often do you have to change the blinker fluid?”
