Some guys really want to be the ones to know everything, don't they? Last night I was at a bar with some girlfriends, including E, who is another substitute teacher. There were also two guys along, both roommates of one of the other girls.

This guy was asking what we did, and when he found out that E and I were subs, he started talking to us about it. After asking a lot of questions, he then started informing us what we could do to become regular teachers. It didn't matter how little he actually knew about the subject, he knew more than us, apparently.

After telling me something so completely wrong and to be laughable, I called him on it. He insisted that it was true. "Have you bee researching this?" iasked. No, he hadn't. Then when it came out that neither of us were sure that we really wanted to continue to be teachers, he started going on and on about how great a job teaching is. (Mostly the standard tripe: short days, summers off, etc.) Yes, we knew this stuff. We also knew about the drawbacks, because we were, after all, teaching. Had he been a teacher? No, he hadn't.

It was pretty funny.