I was waiting for a bus one day along with a woman and her five-year-old daughter who kept asking every 30 seconds, “When is the bus coming? When is the bus coming?”
I said to her, pointing at the GPS electronic display board, “You see that thing up there? And do you see on the left it says ‘253’ and below it ‘254’ — that is the number of the bus that’s coming next and the one after it. The middle bit is the name of the place where it is going. The number on the right tells you when the bus is coming, so five means five minutes. So you can see for yourself how long it’ll take before the bus gets here.”
The mother asked me, “Are you a teacher?”
They must’ve had me in mind when they coined the saying, “A teacher is never off duty”!
A teacher can run but cannot hide. I have the same problem.
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