Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Earning my money

Yesterday I went up to the office to run off science flash cards for my class to use to, obviously, study their science vocabulary words.  Now, we have two copiers in the office, the one I always use and the slower, color machine.  Unfortunately, because we all have to make our own copies now, my favorite machine makes really light copies with gray lines through them.  In other words, it makes ugly copies that don't make me happy.  So I'm starting to use the slower machine.  (It makes nice clean copies...that make me happy.)  BUT I don't know how to use it as well...DON'T JUDGE.  Those new-fangled machines have all these buttons and choices and I never know for sure if I want sort or stack.  Of course, I THINK I'm sorting, but the 11 copies of 4 pages comes out as 4 stacks with 11 copies in each stack...UGH.  Now I have to make 4 piles and take one from each pile to make 11 stacks.  (This sounds like a bad math problem.)
All this set up...now the story:
I'm grumbling to Bonnie, the secretary, about being too stupid to make the machine do what I want it to do.  A parent (I'm assuming) comes into the office.  I leave saying, "I'm off to sort my copies by hand."  And this woman says, "Isn't that what you get paid to do?"
She caught me so off guard that I KNOW I gave her a look that didn't mask my thought of, "REALLY, you think that's all teachers do all day is MAKE COPIES?!"
I think she THOUGHT it was funny, but it wasn't.
{But now it kinda is!}

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