A coffee-hooked colleague used to keep a cuppa’ in a desk drawer and sneak sips between bells. One day, as he opened the drawer, the principal stopped in to ask about a student. Teacher very quickly slammed the drawer. His grade book took on a kind of camouflage look – all white, green, and coffee-cream colored. Didn’t cure him – just changed his method.
Most of the kids I drive to elem & middle school all have water bottles with them all day, and many of the teachers also, a few also take coffee into the class rooms.
I should be writing about envy right now. Maybe about how making it one of the seven deadly sins was a little unfair, like making scratching your butt a deadly sin. It can be unseemly, sure, but you can do it in a way that doesn’t bother anybody or hurt anyone, is what I’m saying.
I could go on about how envy is motivating, and how bad is motivation? Especially if you’re also going to make sloth a deadly sin. Come on, self-righteous people of the world. Think it out.
Or maybe envy doesn’t foster motivation so much as motivation makes envy inevitable. If you strive for something you want, and then you discover someone already has it, well, crap, now you want something someone else has and that sounds like envy, when all you’re really guilty of is trying to improve yourself and pay attention at the same time.
Envy needs some good PR, and I’d like to be the guy to provide it. But yesterday I mentioned that Frazz was now old enough to vote, and your response was so kind, so generous and so abundant that I’m feeling, for the moment, that there is not a person in history I envy. I’m not qualified to defend the emotion. Thank you guys so much.
One deadly sin down, six to go. Until envy returns. Which it will.
well-i-never over 5 years ago
I never had a single teacher with a coffee cup in class.
Arianne over 5 years ago
It’s that old Goose and Gander principle.
Once you get a gander, you envy the goose.
Bilan over 5 years ago
Because if they let kids drink coffee during class, there would be a bathroom break every two minutes.
car2ner over 5 years ago
If she tasted the day old cold coffee she wouldn’t be so envious
sandpiper over 5 years ago
A coffee-hooked colleague used to keep a cuppa’ in a desk drawer and sneak sips between bells. One day, as he opened the drawer, the principal stopped in to ask about a student. Teacher very quickly slammed the drawer. His grade book took on a kind of camouflage look – all white, green, and coffee-cream colored. Didn’t cure him – just changed his method.
dennisodoyle over 5 years ago
Nor I….
Bill The Nuke over 5 years ago
Because the janitor only has to clean up after 1 slob instead of 20.
chromosome Premium Member over 5 years ago
At least she doesn’t smoke in class…
CoffeeBob Premium Member over 5 years ago
Most of the kids I drive to elem & middle school all have water bottles with them all day, and many of the teachers also, a few also take coffee into the class rooms.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] over 5 years ago
Posts Frazz 13 hrs ·
I should be writing about envy right now. Maybe about how making it one of the seven deadly sins was a little unfair, like making scratching your butt a deadly sin. It can be unseemly, sure, but you can do it in a way that doesn’t bother anybody or hurt anyone, is what I’m saying.
I could go on about how envy is motivating, and how bad is motivation? Especially if you’re also going to make sloth a deadly sin. Come on, self-righteous people of the world. Think it out.
Or maybe envy doesn’t foster motivation so much as motivation makes envy inevitable. If you strive for something you want, and then you discover someone already has it, well, crap, now you want something someone else has and that sounds like envy, when all you’re really guilty of is trying to improve yourself and pay attention at the same time.
Envy needs some good PR, and I’d like to be the guy to provide it. But yesterday I mentioned that Frazz was now old enough to vote, and your response was so kind, so generous and so abundant that I’m feeling, for the moment, that there is not a person in history I envy. I’m not qualified to defend the emotion. Thank you guys so much.
One deadly sin down, six to go. Until envy returns. Which it will.