Elementary School
Let me recount an incident from school which may sound funny but my friend got into big trouble at the time. Here’s what happened – we used to have this old teacher in our class – I believe we were in 3rd grade at the time. She always gave us a hard time with our home work and was very strict in class. Back in those days and probably even now it was okay to hit students with a ruler when the teacher felt like taking out her frustration on us kids. All the students hated her.
Now one day the teacher daughter happens to visit our school and decides to stop by in our class. I’m not sure how it was so easy for her to drop in but she did. My friend interestingly enough notices that she has a plastic shopping bag in her hand which was from a Liquor store. Being the mischievous kind and the fact that we hated our teacher, he spreads the rumor in class that our teacher was probably a habitual drinker or at least someone in her family was.
The class monitor decides to report this to teacher the next day and it lands my friend in a big soup. His parents were called in to meet the teacher and Principal. My friend was scared out of his mind and tried to apologize to the teacher. But the teacher had already made up her mind and would not listen to him at all. Needless to say that my friend was reprimanded by the Principal as well as his parents.
Later he was always quiet during this teacher’s class but thankfully he was his normal, joking self during other periods. After that school year he told me that he had decided to change schools and had convinced his parents about it. Looking back at it now, I feel that it was a minor incident and the teacher should have let go of her ego by forgiving the poor kid. He had committed a mistake but was too young to realize the consequences of it.
I was crushed when he informed that he was switching schools since we were close friends. I never saw him again and wonder where he would be now. Hopefully he would be happy and living a good life.
Hey bombayite…
cool blog.. I like it when people recount the “little” stories of their past… These little stories are what
come together to make your hiStory…
hopefully… that kid who poked fun at the teacher will find this blog one day…
wonder what happned to him.. did his parents become more ctrict..and he turned out to be a rocket scientist… or a doctor.. or a broker on Wall st. or a Prof at MIT ?
or did that even change his life for the worse that
and he went downhill from there. and now works
at a liquor store ? That would be too ironic .. lol
but anyways… yea.. was wondering if you believe in the butterfly effect ?
Hi Doc,
I’m not sure what happened to my friend but I do wish him the best in life.