The Chronicles Of…

Sometimes I forget that I may not know everything, and that the qualified person standing next to me may just know more about a subject than me.

Not a severe case of this, but I had one of those situations where someone asks a question and I went to start answering it when I had to say to myself “Hey! Shut Up, what do you think you’re doing, they’re probably directing that question to the person standing next to you who actually works in the industry related to it, and of which you really know not much at all!!”

I think I caught myself before I got a full word out and just had to act like I was going to interrupt with another conversation or something…

But enough about me, let me deflect this post from myself onto someone else… This situation reminded me of something that happened at Narwee High, it was during that PD and Health stuff we did in year 11 or 12, when those gay people came to talk to us about, well, being gay. How was that for an experience!! At a school like ours we knew that that session could involve a bit ‘tension’ or something.

Anyway so a student asks a question about something to do with the gay lifestyle or whatever, and I think it was a certain science teacher who jumped in before the gay people could say anything with something like “I think I can field this one…” WHAT??? Why?? It was a shock, and quite funny, to see, I can’t remember if he realised exactly how that looked and the rumours that may have been started by some of the students around him…

Something else, unrelated, that would have happened during this session… It was being held in the music room, so as soon as everyone starting filing in you would have heard about a dozen keyboards start playing their demo tune, in a staggered fashion, one after the other. Doo do la do, Doo do la do, Doo do la do, doo da dant dant dant. (is that how it went pete??)