Homework Excuse

Same story, new verse, today, with a surprise ending…

“Mrs. G, I KNOW you’ll think this is not true…I feel SOOOOO stupid, but it’s TRUE, it IS! I put my binder on top of my car and…”

Right. I did believe her. Totally.

I told her she was just lucky it wasn’t a baby in a car seat that she’d set on top of the car and driven away…not that I really believe that particular urban belief tale, but I might personally know someone who has set her coffee mug on top of the car, then headed off down the street…

Much to everyone’s amusement, an office aide interrupted class about an hour later, with the binder…a bit worse for wear after having survived its tumble off of the car roof, but more or less intact. A neighbor had seen her take off and watched the binder fly.

The homework was deemed by me to be “on time”, as class was not yet over…