School Story:
So some may remember that I spent much of my time in the auditorium fiddling with lights and sound equipment, and helping with the many assemblies, musicals and other productions that went on there. In fact, by the end of my junior year I was so involved with almost everything that went on in the auditorium, I nearly got my own set of keys since I was borrowing Mrs. Sturgeon's nearly every day. Although, I was able to convince the administration to create a Stage Craft class for our senior year.
One day during our senior year I stopped by the auditorium after school, as I usual did. The sophomore class was practicing for the sophomore assembly that was going on the following morning. I noticed that there were students in the light booth that were not on the stage crew and not with a teacher. Now this was a violation of the most serious nature. So I went straight to the light booth and chastised the violators (sophomores, non the less!) and kicked them out of the light booth. A few minutes later one of the sophomore advisors (Lori Storey, who was a new teacher that year) came into the light booth and asked where the sophomore students had gone. I sternly explained to her that the only students allowed in the light booth were stage crew members, and that if we had been given notification of their practice we would have been happy to provide them with whatever assistance they needed. She apologized and left the light booth. I stayed and helped with the practice and then the assembly the next day which went just fine.
The rest of the day went as normal until I went to English. I went into class and sat in my seat (on the front row) and waited for class to start. The teacher, Marian Storey (who was the advisor to the student body officers), came in a couple minutes later. She marched straight up to me and exclaimed "Don't you ever talk to my daughter-in-law that way again!" I just looked back at her with what must have been a very bewildered and perplexed look on my face and thought "What in the world are you talking about?" And then came the "Ah-ha" moment. There existed a relationship that I was previously unaware of!
Things weren't quite the same between me and Marian Storey after that. I flunked my final quarter of English. :-)
