meet the teacher night @ AUSTIN'S school

after a long evening of going through the high school, class by class, apparently most of the parents decided that they'd skip the last period and try to beat the crowd to their cars in the parking lot.

being the goody two shoes that i am (lol), i wasn't about to leave early (okay...maybe that's not true...maybe true is that austin HAD to serve til the very end and so there really wasn't anything better for me to do).

but, OHHHHHH, if i could change one thing about meet the teacher night for his sophomore year, this would be it. i would have cut class.
why? read on.

geometry. it was the last period of the night. i never really was good in math anyhow. the teacher was waiting in the hall. young guy. bobby stayed home b/c hudson had a fever.

so i get to the room and the guy welcomes me. no one else is there yet. i walk in and it smells SOOOO yummy. i immediately comment. he says he's glad that it smells so good and says he doesn't know what it is, it's a shared classroom, but he's certain it's not him. LOL.

i'm like, "oh no...it's like a bakery scent." and i close my eyes and inhale and then go "YELLOW CAKE MIX! IT SMELLS EXACTLY LIKE YELLOW CAKE MIX."

so he's like, "okay???" and keeps waiting in the doorway (i'm sure hoping some other parents will arrive ).

so i start walking around the empty classroom...i'm certain there HAS to be a plug in kind of thing somewhere and i want to know what it is b/c i LOVE the smell.

i went up to this box looking thing and started to sniff it and realize, RIGHT AS HE TELLS ME, that it's an electric pencil sharpener. OMG.

i'm snorting as i type this out.
so now i HAVE to redeem myself by proving to him that there really IS something in the room that is scented.

i finally find it (it's a big room). it's just some random glade plug in. and i pull it out of the wall and hold it up triumphantly: "FOUND IT!!!!!"

and no one else ever showed up. and the poor guy now thinks that his students mom is an absolute FREAK.

and i am still giggling. seriously. i sniffed the pencil sharpener.

and there you have it. my most embarassing moment of 2009.