MisunderstoodMy other half rang a courier today to get a disc sent over to a client. The courier company asked what it was she was sending. "A computer disc", she said.
Half an hour later, 3 blokes in a van turned up. They looked a little disappointed to be handed a floppy disc: they were all prepared to shift a computer desk across London.
Have you been utterly misunderstood recently?
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chthonic, Thu 6 Oct 2005, 23:06)
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My mum......works as a secondary school teacher in Liverpool. She told me about one time (teaching CDT-type stuff) when the class was having a bit of a project primer/brainstorm thing about toys for the disabled.
She opened with 'So, what kind of toy or game do you think would be suitable for a child who has a disability?', to be answered by one lad at the back of the class with 'Fuck-all'. My mum went into an immediate indignant fit and told the visibly nonplussed lad to get out of the room and wait until she came to deal with him.
She left him there for ten minutes until she had the rest of them ticking over and then went outside to mercilessly bollock him - my eldest brother had cerebal palsy, y'see, and in addition to having a profound effect on his ability to get about and communicate like a regular joe, it was a major factor in him passing away in his mid-30's so such issues are quite close to our hearts. The fact that this lad swore in class basically forgotten because of this, she really did rip into him. She gave him the works, saying that he can't go through life viewing people like that, how would he feel, he couldn't live a day in thier shoes, he should be ashamed and so on. To his credit he waited until she had finished and then said in his scouser-than-scouse accent, 'But I don't get you miss - I reckon after thinking that not all disabled can make use of one, but what's wrong with a football?'
A school teacher honestly apologising to a pupil is a rare thing - never happened to me when I was a pupil, anyway :)
(, Sat 8 Oct 2005, 15:13, Reply)
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