Time Isn’t Dragon In This Class!

Back when I was in school (over a decade ago now), we got a new chemistry teacher. She was in her first year of teaching, she was super nice, and we all adored her.

One time in class, she made a demonstration of a flour-dust explosion. The setup for this required her to blow into one end of a long tube to stir up the flour in the container at the other end in order for the small explosion to happen.

[Classmate], “works” (aka volunteers) for our pupils’ magazine.

Classmate: “Ms. [Teacher], is it okay for me to film the experiment?”

Teacher: “What are you going to use the video for?”

Classmate: “I thought it would be cool to show photos of the experiment in the pupils’ magazine.”

Teacher: “Oh, sure! That’s a great idea. I’d love to see the pictures when the next issue of the magazine is published.”

He proceeded to film the experiment, and one of the frames from the video did end up in the next issue of the pupils’ magazine. It showed [Teacher] still blowing into the tube while there was a fireball at the other end.

The flavor text read: “Ms. [Teacher], a fire-spitting dragon.”

She took it in good stride when [Classmate] showed her the article and claimed that was the coolest she was ever going to look.