this one time at high school
12 years ago. High school. AP Bio.
Yes I took AP Bio, that is Advanced Placement Biology. Wow how did I end up there. I wasn’t even good in regular Bio. But my AP Bio teacher was very cool, in fact my regular bio teacher was cool as well, maybe that is why I took AP. I surely wasn’t supposed to be there, but doesn’t mean it wasn’t a good experience. I wasn’t a good student in AP Bio, my classmates knew this, my teacher knew this, and I knew this. Yet, my classmates mostly liked me, my teacher liked me and I liked me. I will have to say I at least made the class entertaining.
There was AT LEAST 
one girl that was interested in me in this class and tried to get my attention, initially. She later found out how I really am, and all that changed. She was Greek. 90% of that high school was Greek, if you are reading this and you are Greek, you probably went to my high school. High school was fun, it was some of the best years I had.
Cliff Notes
So AP Bio, my teacher was cool and let me joke around and completely interrupt her lessons to make my jokes or annoying comments . I mean there was serious time sometimes, but that didn’t apply to me, it was for everyone else, I think we all knew that! Or maybe my teacher didn’t know that until she decided to take my cliff notes, which had a picture of someone inside. Yes the picture was of a girl, no I will not say who she is, and no I don’t have the picture anymore. And yes she was fully clothed. I am not sure why she took it, but I think she wanted to try to be tough with me. To tell me, I should behave perhaps. That didn’t fly with me so well. I was quickly angered with her and within seconds I planned out my revenge.
It so happens that day, we were supposed to do something in class, I don’t know what it is because I didn’t know what it was then. I didn’t pay attention but do know that she gave out rulers to everyone. There were maybe 30 people in the class, so 30 rulers. It was simple, she took something of mine and I was supposed to do the same to her. I left my seat and walked around the classroom, I collected every ruler from every student, just before the class ended. In my hand I had a stack of 30 rulers clenched in my fist. I didn’t even say anything to my teacher, I just grabbed my book bag and walked out of the classroom. I am pretty sure she needed them for the next class, but I wasn’t going to let her get away with taking my belongings!
Funny thing, I never let those rulers out of my hand, I walked with them in my hand the whole day, and AP Bio was one of my morning classes. I don’t think I put the rulers down anywhere the entire day. I got asked the same question by whoever saw me and wasn’t scared that I would hit them with the rulers. Why do you have all these rulers? Usually the question came with a smile, laugh or look of confusion or maybe fear. My answer was the same, my teacher took my book, I took her rulers. Which I think sent a message to many students and perhaps other teachers, DO NOT TAKE HIS STUFF. It was only until I was no longer angry sometime in the day that I eased up my clench on the rulers. I had sweaty palms back then, wait maybe I still do … well squeezing my hand on them didn’t help that. After the long day, after final period (class), I decided to go see if she was in the class room and to make a trade.
Ruler but like 30 of them
I went up the flight of stairs and opened the door to see her at the end of the hallway, just closing the classroom door and about to lock it. In that moment that I saw her, she turned to me and saw me step out of the stair case with 30 rulers still in my hand. Did I tell you this teacher was cool? She couldn’t even control herself, she just burst out laughing when she saw me. She quickly opened the class room door and let me in. She asked why I took them but really she knew already, and I didn’t have to ask for a trade, she just went straight to her desk, opened her drawer and handed me my book back, at which I pried open my fist to give her back the rulers. We were back to same old the following class. She never took my belongings again. Thanks for being such a cool teacher.
