Being told off as an adultWhen was the last time you were properly told off? You know: treated as an errant child rather than the sophisticated adult you are.
The sort of thing that dredges up an involuntary teenage mumble of "Sorry, Miss" whilst you stare at the ground.
Go on, tell us what childish thing you were up to when you got caught.
Oh, and can we have more than one-line answers this time? Cheers!
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chthonic, Thu 20 Sep 2007, 17:18)
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on regular basisI find myself being told off by tutors at uni, I am a mature student and instead of them just telling me straight.... ie your essay is a bag of shizzer or shut up and listen you twunt, I am 'told off ' by people who have nursing qualification and are councilers, so its really annoying because of their softly softly aproach( and the fact that I have enough interlect in my small brain to realise that they are right with what they are telling me but I wish they would just tell me what on the day I am doing that is sooo wrong or goes againstthis that or the other) so
I try to piss them off a bit untill they snap ..........and every one has a breaking point, I can usally find it quite quickly, then i find their heart felt annoyance and anger less patronising and it reminds me that tutors are human too. and I always leave lectures with that smug feelling of I still have not grown up.
(, Thu 20 Sep 2007, 20:28, Reply)
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