A former teaching colleague and I caught up recently, and she told me this: I just bumped into a former student of mine at the local hardware store where she works. Upon seeing my friend walk in the store, her former student, behind the counter, backhand-tapped her colleague’s shoulder and said, “Here’s one of my high-school teachers; she used to leave notes on my styrofoam Dunkin Donuts cups that said, “You’re killing polar bears.”
Without skipping a beat, my friend asked: “Are you still?”
“No, look!” her former student said, turning and grabbing from the counter behind and turning back around to hold up for her teacher—a reusable coffee mug.
