Will Lead With That Argument

(I’m teaching a summer school class, and we’ve just finished an hour of gym. The school is an older brick building in the inner city, and so the system provides water coolers to replace the old fountains – no sense in drinking water that might be contaminated with lead. Or so I thought…)

Me: “Why are you drinking from that water fountain? It might have lead in it!”

Student: “To get a check!”

(The sad thing was, he really thought that legal compensation was worth the brain damage!)