Definitely Some Kind Of Teachable Moment

When I was in high school, the English teacher was married to the Spanish teacher, both in their early sixties. Everyone knew but didn’t pay it much attention.

One day, during our English class, the Spanish teacher stuck his head in the room and asked if our teacher had his lunch. She pointed over to where it was on the desk and continued to teach. He walked through the room with a “hi, kids!”, got his lunch, and headed back towards the door. But as he passed behind our teacher standing at her podium, she suddenly jumped and squeaked, then turned to give him a dirty look as he sauntered out of the room grinning.

She turned back to our class of twenty-five absolutely stunned fifteen-year-olds staring at her, shrugged nonchalantly, and said:

English Teacher: “Just because there’s snow on the roof doesn’t mean there’s no fire in the fireplace.”

This cracked us up so bad it took another ten minutes to get back to the lesson.