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In 8th grade my history teacher, Mr. Turner had something called question day every Friday. On question day we could ask him any question we had and he would try to answer them. Some of the questions were about funny things, and some of them were deep, meaning-of-life questions. Mr. Turner had dozens of funny stories to tell us. he was a mischievous child and he grew up in a neighborhood full of mischievous kids like him. Everyone loved to hear the funny things that happened in his life, but one day someone asked a deep question. The question was, "If you could be anything other that a teacher what would you be?" He responded by saying that he wouldn't ever change jobs because he loved his job as a teacher. He said that when he was in school he was a very bad kid, but one teacher-a history teacher-helped him be a better student, got his grades up, and helped him care about school. Mr. Turner then said that he would never be anything other than a teacher because he owes it to one student to change their life for the better. I thought that that was really cool that he wanted to help someone like that. It must be neat to be a teacher and see your students grow and become not only smarter, but responsible and better people because sure school is about the grades, but its more about learning to be a person.

In the summer of 2004 I went to Mississippi with my mom. While we were on the road we stopped for breakfast at a place called Big Ed's pancake house. We eventually were seated at a BIG round table in BIG chairs.My mom and I exchanged looks of confusion and we began to look at the menu. I saw what I wanted immediately. I ordered a short stack of pancakes when the waitress got to our table. She got very serious when she asked, "Are you sure?" Ummm... no I just ordered pancakes so you could call me crazy, yes I want a short stack of pancakes. so I said,"Yes." Fifteen minutes later she returned with our meals. I was shocked to see two 12 inch diameter pancakes plopped in front of me. the waitress simply said, "I warned you."