I started full time work at 16 ( a long time ago!).
1st day going to work , i got on the tube, and too my absolute horror , didn't recognise the names of the tube station names, as the tube passed through, i didn't realise the tube ran in different directions and i'd got on the one going in the opposite direction....
I started full time work at 16 ( a long time ago!).
1st day going to work , i got on the tube, and too my absolute horror , didn't recognise the names of the tube station names, as the tube passed through, i didn't realise the tube ran in different directions and i'd got on the one going in the opposite direction....
I was trying so hard to stay awake as a lecturer droned on about magnetic fields.
He suddenly stopped and said, 'Raith, do they attract or do they repel?' Ah I thought, he's giving me a 50/50 I've got to go for it. I went for Attract. There was a collective sharp intake of breath in the classroom that told me they (whatever 'they' were? ) actually repel. The lecturer then asked me two subsequent questions, both of which I managed to get wrong. My God he was on my case for the rest of the week, he'd often ask if there were any questions - but that became, 'have you any questions Raith?'
That week couldn't end quick enough.
reminds me when my mate next to me was caught daydreaming by the teacher, got asked a question and i whispered the answer "cheese" which he promptly gave with confidence. Cheese had absolutely nothing to do with the subject matter or what the teacher was talking about. I think the teacher wasn't even angry and was literally taken aback.
I had a friend in primary school who was well-known to be top of the class. Sometimes, when the teacher asked the class a question, he'd mutter a wrong answer under his breath, just so that kids would overhear it, and eagerly offer it as their answer.
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