The All-In-One Sub...Whacky, Wild and Weird!

This whacky sub was filling in for a teacher who became ill. You won't believe the things he did!

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Hey everybody, I'm Mr. S, and today I'm going to tell you about one of the wackiest substitute teachers I've ever been around, and it all happened in my early days of teaching. One of our sixth grade teachers got very, very ill and had to be hospitalized late in the year. And they hired a substitute teacher to take his place. And he was a young man, about six foot six, maybe six foot eight, very tall, and he was from Maryland. And he claimed he went to the University of Maryland and played basketball for them. I don't know really if he did or not, but I do know he brought his yearbook to school, and he'd walk up and down the rows of desks with his finger pointed at his picture, encouraging all the kids to clap and cheer when he passed by. And that's just one of the things right there. But listen to this. After just being in school there teaching for a few days, we were up in the teacher's lounge. There were three of us guys, and we had our own lounge. But he had told us he went around and he met all the teachers in the building. And as far as he was concerned, he said he thought he was the most level-headed and mature teacher in the school system. So I don't know if that tells you a little bit about him right there, but I have a couple stories here that you can't make these things up. He wore the same necktie day in and day out. And finally, one of us asked him if he had any other ties. And his answer was one of the teachers on the first day of school, or his first day, let's say, she told him what a neat-looking necktie he was wearing that she loved it. So he said, if that was so neat, he's gonna wear it every day, and he did. He wore the same tie every day. It wasn't long ago, everyone in the school was talking about it, and he thought that they were all complimenting him about it. Another uh thing that he did, or he had, he did teach a few classes of science, and he had a medium-sized fish bowl on his shelf, and it was full of water, and he would tell the kids he would come up to school at night and feed the cooties that were in the water. You couldn't see them, he say, but they're in there, and he had to feed them at night because they couldn't eat during the day in the sun when the sun was out. So everybody, you know, kind of went along with that. There, of course, he's got his bowl of cooties sitting there. And then another one was one day when the kids all came to school, he was on top of his desk all curled up in a ball. And he said he wasn't going to get off until they could figure out what he was being an example of. And finally he had to tell them, because none of the kids knew they thought, you know, some some lunatic, I guess. But he was told him he was being an example of a baby in the mother's womb, what it would look like. How can you imagine that? And finally, on the last day of school, after school was over, a mother came roaring down the hallway with her daughter, and she had red marks all over her neck, and she complained that they were his fingerprints from squeezing her neck out on the playground. So, needless to say, I don't know if that was true or not, but needless to say, that was his last day of school, and we never saw that big tall guy again. So there's just another example of you never know what you're gonna run into, but looking back on it was a lot of fun. Going through it, it wasn't so much fun, it was it was weird, weird and wacky. So I hope you enjoyed that little story, and until the next time we meet again, don't forget to hang on, be cool, and stay calm.