From: utzoo!decvax!cwruecmp!glassner Newsgroups: net.jokes Title: Real-life ironic story Article-I.D.: cwruecmp.435 Posted: Tue Jan 25 13:05:42 1983 Received: Fri Jan 28 01:25:11 1983 A couple of years ago I was an undergraduate at a commuter college on Long Island (off New York). My major was Communication Arts, which basically meant how to do stuff like production, directing, operation of video cameras and boards, etc. Anyway, one day I was attending the second lecture of a class entitled "Communication Skills," one of those incredibly bogus classes that they require people to take to graduate. The instructor was a lady just out of the same school with her Master's in Communication Arts. She was of the type that makes you understand why there are so many automobile accidents nowadays...I wouldn't want her to turn the knob on my volume controls, much less drive a heavy vehicle. It was the end of the second lecture, and after we had all been pummeled into stupor for forty-five minutes or so we were glad to see the end of the period come about. We started the usual stuff a class does to signal the teacher that class was over: folding up notebooks, putting pens away, zipping up bookbags, etc. She did not get the idea, and it wasn't because she wasn't looking; in fact she was trying to be the "classic teacher" and constantly looked up at us for "eye contact" as she spoke. She explained that this was her policy in the first lecture! Anyway, she didn't get the message, and now the period had been over for a couple of minutes. So a few of us stood up and put on our coats, making a lot of noise in the process. We really weren't trying to be rude; we had classes immediately after and wanted her to end the lecture gracefully. Well, she kept going. By this time most everyone had their books put away and about half the class was actually standing next to the door with their coats on! About twelve minutes after the class was supposed to end she finally noticed that we were giving her a message, and remarked, "Oh, I guess the period is over. Okay, that's all for now." We were gone in a flash. The irony here is that the topic of the lecture she was presenting that day was "Awareness and Non-Verbal Communication"! -Not Stan Mack's Real Life Funnies, but all dialogue guaranteed verbatim anyway. -Andrew decvax!cwruecmp!glassner