What is your favorite memory of XHS?
Who remembers Mrs. Karl? Man... I probably wouldn't if it wasn't for Tony Schubert and some of the hilarious ways he used to exasperate her.
One day we had some sort of Theology Exam. Most people were getting close to done, but Mrs. Karl was trying to keep the peace for the few who weren't quite finished, God love 'er.
Anyway, out of nowhere Tony says, "Um...Mrs. Karl? There's a wasp in here." She tried to get us all to just ignore it, but Tony insisted, "But what if someone's allergic?" So Tony goes on the hunt for this wasp, jumping, swinging, getting up on desks. Poor Mrs. Karl tried to get Tony to stop but the rest of the class pretty much drowned her and her awkward lack of authority out.
I had nothing better to do, so I got in on the game. I finally chased our mini threat over to an inset in the wall over by the classroom door and WHAP! Because of the way the wall was situatated, Mrs. Karl couldn't see the result of my unflinching violence, but the look on her face was one of sheer horror. She was sure of it, I could tell: This son of two faculty theology teachers was no Saint...he was the devil incarnate.
That wasp left a heckuva smear. What else was there to say, "Anybody got a Scott Towel?"
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Oh the way Tim Fox and I used to torture his wife Rachel (Jenkins) back in the day...sitting in choir next to her, our faces frozen in crazed catatonic smiles, directed right at her. "Stop," she'd say, "Stop it!" Finally it got loud and desparate, "STOP LOOKING AT ME!"
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In memory of Mrs. Trachta. It was almost daily in her class that we'd hear her chastise Matt Hinz with, "Matt! Take a breath!" or "Did you eat Birdseed for breakfast?!"
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