Well, not deliberate animal cruelty. It was clearly meant to prank the teacher and send a fishie home with each of the students. As I replied to Ari, it was not well-planned. Also, our science teacher saved all the fish with a tub and aerator. Those kids who can actually take a fish home will presumably do so;…

True. Good prank but not very well thought out...the science teacher saved them all by putting them in a tub with an aerator. The kids will retrieve them at the end of the day and hopefully some of them will live. Also, our headmaster (who is a nun) said that maybe they should be fed to the carp in the garden pond.

Agreed. It is, however, very difficult to find an actual prank that isn't mean-spirited in some way. Example: one of my teacher colleagues walked into her classroom this morning and there was a cup of water with a live fish and a zippy bag of fish food on every single student desk. Also, there was a fishbowl with…

Fun fact: Miley was born in 1992!

I will say hat I don't really dig high-waisted panties. Like, ok, I guess those are not exactly granny panties...but I also don't find them to be in any way attractive. Way too 80s :/

Wow, I'm super surprised that the chicken pox vaccine was available in the US starting in 1995. I was about 12 when I got chicken pox...so like, 1997. I guess I could have totally avoided having them when I was in 6th grade! (It was fucking ROUGH).

One of my favorite things to do to fuck around with my students is to look and them and say, with my eyes as wide as possible, "Did you just take the Lord's name in VAIN?"

HahAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA, yes, this is my everyday. "Oh fuck, there's kids here. Also, there's a nun in the next office with her door open. Shit."

Agreed!

Teaching drives a person to it, tbh. I'm just kidding, I drank and swore like a sailor before I worked at a Catholic middle school, but I think I'd be driven to it if I wasn't already there ;)

Oh man, my husband has a really hard time translating the very colorful curses of Romanian into English for this very reason.

I am a middle school teacher....and I have a FILTHY fucking mouth that I have to watch at school...at my Catholic school :/ It is hard. When I get really super colorful, my husband exclaims, "Ms. DFORCE!" with mock horror. He is adorbs.

Aw, lame-o. Everyone should be able to have the kind of wedding they want :( Sorry, dude.

Oh, I totally don't blame you. I wouldn't have a church wedding just because families want it; the two of us want it, and although we loved our elopement, this will really be a time for our various peoples to meet each other. Very few humans on the planet know both of us, so we're really looking forward to the church…

We eloped, but we are still going to have a church wedding...Luckily we're going to have it in Eastern Europe, well outside of the insane wedding industrial complex. I'm also helping my sister, and she makes me lose my shit because American weddings are fucking INSANITY. All my guests will want is food, booze, and…

I don't care; you will never take away my butter.

Oh man, my ring is HUGE and we won't be able to get it resized until I move back to Europe (it's just a band, but it has an inscription on the inside, which makes it tricky to work on; I'll only take it to the jeweler who made it). I had to get little plastic do-dads to keep it from just falling off constantly :/

ETA couldn't resist engaging a troll who harshed my vibe...

What we always did was put things in piles for each person at the bottom of the stairs. Each person then had to bring her stuff upstairs and put it away properly. We did this no matter how good or horrible the house was (it could sometimes get pretty bad, since Saturday was our cleaning day).

Hm, what about the small round bandaids? Those are maybe harder to pick off. Is there something not on your body that you can pick at? Like....some kind of textured material or sweater squares or something? You could try rediverting the action, since for me it's partially about keeping my hands busy.