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The Monster: Am Eloquent Baby

Customer: hello, I’m not really sure what I want today. Do you have anything hot that tastes like caramel?

Me: Absolutely, caramel lattes and caramel macchiatos are both very popular drinks.

Customer: Oh, what’s the difference?

Me: Well, caramel lattes are made with milk over caramel syrup and espresso, and caramel macchiatos are made with caramel drizzle and espresso over milk and vanilla syrup. They both come hot or iced. :)

Customer: Thank you! I think I will try the hot caramel macchiato :)

Me: Okay, sounds good! :)

Situation two:

Customer: I want a latte.

Me: Okay, and would you like that hot or iced today?

Customer: What’s the difference?

Me: …

We wouldn’t talk. They’d tell us to do something and we’d just sit there quietly and do it, until eventually they just said “hey, guys, it’s okay to chat while you work!” and then everybody would start talking.

One teacher described it as creepy.

And I just remember thinking, what the fuck did they expect to happen? We’d all been taught from the age of four or five onwards that talking in class was bad. That if we did it, we’d be told off, or punished, or in some instances maybe the entire class would be punished along with us, just to make sure we really got the idea. It was a whole thing.

But now, because we were sixth-formers and therefore ‘grown ups’, we were suddenly expected to flip a switch and be able to talk as much as we liked? The whole reason we were in sixth-form was because we had worked hard, done well at school, and generally followed the rules— but still the teachers couldn’t understand why we didn’t just talk to each other.

Now I’m at uni, and seminar tutors are having a similar problem. People will talk in seminars, but a lot of them will insist on raising their hands and waiting to be called upon first. “Don’t put your hands up, just shout at me!” the guy keeps saying. But they keep doing it anyway.

Another huge problem is trying to get them to think around subjects and find solutions for themselves, because they’re so conditioned to just put their heads down and follow instructions step by step without thinking about it that when they hit independent work a lot of them are just completely lost. It takes months, sometimes years, to guide them back into the mindset of learning and thinking independently.

Imagine someone liking you enough to ask you out on a date (°□°)

So people are making different videos for you to use in uncomfortable situations!