What are those things that you listen to called again? (Another substitute teacher story)

My history teacher is away this week (or I guess I should say last week by now), and a week is enough time to merit a "long-term" sub.

Let substitute teacher = Ms. A.

As class started, Ms. A asked us if someone who knew their way around the school could help her find the stuff so we could watch our movie. They returned eventually with a box, and she looked in it and said, "This isn't the right stuff." They quickly realized that though it had said her last name on it, it wasn't refering to her. So, off on another expedition around the school to find the movie.

Eventually they gave up, and someone in the class decided to read Macbeth aloud in different accents as a source of amusement. (It was amusing, unlike other times when kids have taken it upon themselves to amuse a class.)

After a while, Ms. A realized that the movie had been in the classroom all along, so we started watching it.

A funny thing about Ms. A is that every time she saw someone listening to an ipod, she would look at them and make a gesture like she was pulling something out of her ear. The first time she did it, I had no idea what she meant. Then she just said, "unplug! unlplug!" while doing that motion and I realized she meant "take out your headphones". The weird thing was that she didn't seem to know any word for headphones or earphones or ipod, and she would just say, "Take out your--" and then make her motion and say "unplug!" as if we were turning into robots by plugging ourselves into electrical outlets.

You know how people used to say if you make an ugly face for too long your features will get stuck in that position? Maybe someday adults will scare kids out of listening to ipods too much by telling them that having wires in your ears for too much time will cause you to fuse into the ipod and become a machine. :D

-Rebecca