Uncle DT's Random Image Thread

[Blaze]

I've only had two teachers that I thought were cool. The best one was Ms. Gamble - a concentration camp survivor that had the tattoo numbers on her forearm. She was bent at the world, never smiled, always had a scowl, and was a lunch monitor where she would end up breaking a yard stick once a week slamming it on a table telling kids to shut up. She was also the art teacher (grades 6-8). I had just transferred to this new school, had no friends (rumors started fast and over the top because someone found out what school I was at that had the reputation of being a "children of the corn" type place where we actually killed a teacher - we didn't, but I do have stories), and sat alone in the back of the class. The assignment was to do a Christmas card transfer. Basically, pick out a Christmas card, roughly 5x7 and transfer the image to a poster 24x36 using a grid system. So I'm in my own world penciling this image. I'm just about done and this kid comes by and tells me I did it all wrong. It was supposed to be in color using the paints. I'm like, I don't care. I'm done, I'm not painting it. I'll take the F. I hand in my piece and walk out the class. The next week, she's handing out everyone's pieces and she's extremely annoyed saying how everyone's work was sloppy and just bad. Everyone was getting like D's and C's for a grade. After that, she says, one person didn't get their piece back. Of course the class is looking at me and that kid who said I was supposed to use paints is being all cocky and had that joyful glee in his eye about "see, I told you - you failed miserably and she's going to be yelling at you". Ms. Gamble then goes on to say, "the reason why this student didn't get their piece back is because it's hanging in the superintendent's office". After class, she stopped me and gave me a lot of words of encouragement, and I got to see her smile. The following year, she helped me out during graphic arts when a silk screen project got all boogered up and she managed to design a new screen to cover up an area where the ink leaked out...

I think if you became a teacher, you'd definitely be one of the awesome and cool ones...