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