Randy was the guy I got closest to in my new class. He was really smart. And I mean REALLY smart. At the time, I don't know that I had ever met someone who was as smart as he was. He was also hellishly bored with school. We had two teachers and switched after lunch, one for science and math and the other for English and social studies. One day, in the English class, he was being his usual bored self and the teacher had had enough and called him out on it. He told her he didn't need to pay attention to any of this because he wasn't learning anything anyway. Her response (and this was something I never quite figured out... Did she think he was actually NOT smart and was acting out because he was an idiot? I don't know...) was to ask, "Oh, yeah? What was that last book YOU read?" He looked her straight in the eye and replied, in a deadpan voice, "War and Peace". She stood there, silent, for about five seconds, blinked a couple of times, then proceeded to go on teaching the rest of the class and, for the most part, ignored him for the rest of the term.Statistics: Posted by Zen — Wed Jul 26, 2017 10:42 am
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