Harry Nilsson – I Yam What I Yam

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If it wasn’t for my students, I’d have nothing to blog about. Furthermore, it’s amazing how one entirely inane comment from a student can completely brighten an otherwise mundane day.

Today around 12:30pm, one of my students walked into my lunchroom with great melancholy, sat down, hung his head, and quietly proclaimed:

“I’ve not yet mastered glue.”

I shouldn’t have laughed. I know, I know, I’m supposed to be the mature and responsible adult, but it took all the muster I could manage to hold back. Simply hearing this comment entirely out of any type of a context produced a result that could only be described with the noun “hilarity”. Luckily, a few moments later, this student had definitively cheered up, and could now laugh at the fact that he had not had such a great day with the glue in his previous class. Better luck next time.