At one point during my morning class I looked up from a group of kids I was working with and saw that Twitch had flipped his collar up and pulled his head nearly all the way into his shirt.
I went over to his table and sat next to him.
He turned to look at me.
Only his eyes were peeking out from the top of his shirt and it seemed that something was a little off. It took me a second to realize that the reason he looked odd (other than that he had his shirt pulled up to his eyes) was that he had colored, in pen, between his eyes so it looked like he had a uni-brow!
“Twitch, could you please pull your shirt down and wear it normally”
He responded with a muffled “But Miss! You don’t understand! Can I go to the bathroom first?”
“No…just pull your shirt down…please…”
He reluctantly returned his shirt to a normal position, thus revealing his reason for wanting to go to the bathroom. He had drawn a curly moustache, gigantic sideburns, and a thin beard all over his face! WITH PEN!! Really, it was all I could do to keep it together! He explained that he had been dared (and well, who can refuse a good dare?) but was now regretting his choice and was nervous that it wouldn’t all come off. I’d be willing to bet it didn’t all come off (I wouldn’t let him out of class to wash his face…it was just too entertaining to look at!) but I’m also willing to bet that he won’t be in as much trouble with mom as he thinks he will be.
4 Comments
May 6, 2008 at 6:07 pm
I don’t think I could have kept it together! Again, I say, middle schoolers are so weird!
May 7, 2008 at 8:26 am
Oh my gosh, that is too funny! I would’ve had to taken a picture too – just to remember him by!
May 7, 2008 at 7:46 pm
OMG – too funny!!! Was it still on there the next day??
May 9, 2008 at 4:17 pm
Funny story. I may have let him try to wash it off, though.