I definitely never did this
When I was first teaching in China, it was at a university. The classes I was teaching were all training to be primary school teachers, and thus were about 96% female, all between 19 and 20. Well, I has happy as a dog with two dicks, as you can imagine, especially as they seemed to consider me "glamourous" and "exotic" - it was a university in a small provincial town, and I don't think most of them had even met a foreigner before. So they would beam at me, and I would exult in how cool I suddenly was.

So one day, I turned up for class and got the lesson on the data projector. I used to type the lesson plans up on Word, with the basic instructions which I would explain as the class proceeded. Simples.

Except, for this class, I had been bored/horny while typing it up. So I definitely didn't start off with "Today, we'll be talking about... who gets to suck me off". And forgotten to delete it. And shit myself when I saw it up on the monitor.

I don't think I've ever moved a mouse so fast.
(McChinaman banned, Wed 21 Sep 2011, 8:06, 22 replies)

The classes you was teaching? English?

(Galahad is out of his gourd on yellow bentines, Wed 21 Sep 2011, 8:22, closed)

I think you'll find I'm right

(McChinaman banned, Wed 21 Sep 2011, 9:16, closed)

Today's lesson: contemporary slang and its corruptive influence on society.

( .Yeti. El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Wed 21 Sep 2011, 9:21, closed)

Sorry to be obtuse (?) but what's the problem with that sentence?

(McChinaman banned, Wed 21 Sep 2011, 9:33, closed)

The classes I were teaching.
Their, thats bettor.
( Ghoti Fingers, Wed 21 Sep 2011, 9:47, closed)

The classes I taught
Sorry, for it is I that is being obtuse.

I have nothing decent to contribute so I pointlessly comment on other people's stories.
(Galahad is out of his gourd on yellow bentines, Wed 21 Sep 2011, 9:51, closed)

That's a different tense, though.

( Ghoti Fingers, Wed 21 Sep 2011, 9:56, closed)

I like how this started about me leching on students and became a debate about grammar.

(McChinaman banned, Wed 21 Sep 2011, 10:08, closed)

Leching on?
Leching after, surely?
( Ghoti Fingers, Wed 21 Sep 2011, 10:13, closed)

:-)

(McChinaman banned, Wed 21 Sep 2011, 10:15, closed)

Lechering
the classes I was lechering

that's betterer
( hugo-a-gogo has no sig, the gayer, Wed 21 Sep 2011, 10:24, closed)

Surely it's a situational imperfect for the subordinate preterite of the action?

( .Yeti. El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Wed 21 Sep 2011, 10:30, closed)

Pfffffffff.
No one says imperfect anymore. I see it as the past continuous in the noun phrase because the classes were a continuous action at the time of the story. That's why we use the past continuous to set the scene at the beginning of a narrative.
( The Awful Puppy Bakery is still bored, Wed 21 Sep 2011, 10:35, closed)

^^^ This

(McChinaman banned, Wed 21 Sep 2011, 10:53, closed)

I was walking down the street one day,
I saw a house on fire.
There was a man shouting and screaming from the top floor,
For he was sore afraid.

BRING BACK THE IMPERFECT! Brought to you by the Classicist Old Farts Association.
( .Yeti. El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Wed 21 Sep 2011, 11:20, closed)

Oh, don't get me wrong.
I understand we still need to use imperfect to describe the mood of some past verbal phrases, but I feel that no one uses it to describe subject+was/were+present participle anymore.
( The Awful Puppy Bakery is still bored, Wed 21 Sep 2011, 11:40, closed)

well
Monster munch and Janet Aylia have a new friend then
(andythepieman Is surfing the waves of indifference on, Thu 22 Sep 2011, 11:50, closed)

You're in the wrong job.

( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 21 Sep 2011, 10:08, closed)

Yes, it was a different "job" that he was thinking about

(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Wed 21 Sep 2011, 10:54, closed)

it was a diferante job and any way it was a long time ago

( fluffybunnykiller Is feasting on the clitoris of life, Wed 21 Sep 2011, 13:07, closed)

This is the sort of English up with which I will not put.

(CactusZack Shaved his coin purse on, Wed 21 Sep 2011, 21:26, closed)

"glamOrous"
sorry.
(Guy Debord cette mauvaise réputation..., Wed 21 Sep 2011, 22:59, closed)