Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Storytime: Mr. Brannan's 5th Period

Last year, I had a very entertaining algebra class.  The teacher was Mr. Brannan, a very flamboyant guy who wore woman's shirts and weird hats.  My two good friends and I, Shannon and Mallory developed a dislike for Mr. Brannan and his weird ways.  Our tricks to faze Mr. Brannan got in the way of grades, though, me and Mallory in particular.  But aside from our awful grades, we always did something really fun in our back corner of the class, in the midst of Brannan's strange and at times perverted comments.  Mallory and I LOVE Saturday Night Live.  After every weekend, we'd come to school, and the first thing we'd say to each other is "Did you see Stefon?"  "Wasn't Lana Del Rey terrible?"  "Wasn't that monologue hilarious?"  Once, we decided to write a skit for Stefon on weekend update, one of our favorites.  I will post it later once I find it in my pile of old schoolwork and other crap, but just take my word it was really funny.  Please, if you've never seen Stefon on weekend update, youtube it.  But anyways, we kept reading our original skit, and Mr. Brannan took it from us and put in his collection of random toys, broken phones, and letters he got from students.  His one rule was, "once something goes in my jar, it may never come out."  Well, reciprocating our skit was not gonna happen, so when Brannan was standing at the door of the room, I snuck over to his jar, and took out the skit.  He never found out.  I was definitely blunt with Mr. Brannan,  on the last day of school I told him "This was the worst class ever."  Well, I regret saying that, because 1/2 of my classes this year are worse than Brannan's class for sure.  And after taking his shirt off in front of us, calling me, Shannon and Mallory witches, and the teacher's aide a vixen (and it was a dude) and 19 letters of complaint to the principal, no progress was made.  I really got absolutely nothing out of that class, just countless laughs, some humiliation, and the knowledge to never trust a math teacher who watches Game of Thrones when he should be grading tests.

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