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There is a small class of freshmen I have for two hours a day, and since yesterday was the first day back from Thanksgiving break, I decided to do a little team-building activity.

The students took turns telling the most interesting thing that happened to them during their break. After everybody had a turn, I was going to give them a "quiz." The quiz would go like this: I'd mention some detail of a story, then call on a student. The student I called on would have to say whose story it was I had mentioned. If someone blurted out an answer, they lost a point.

After explaining the rules, I randomly called on students to tell their story. Since I had agreed to allow the students to use notes on the "quiz," when a student was telling a story, the others were taking notes on the story (so was I). I called on a young lady we'll call Mary.

Mary isn't quite shy, but doesn't want to be the center of attention. She refused to tell her story while "they're all looking at me!" So, I instructed the class to look at a sign on the opposite wall and listen while Mary told her story. The sign was the district's new motto. A student tried to read it out loud (a typical act from a 14 year old), and said, I'll spell it as she read it, eh - do - kah - tay. The sign read, "Educate Every One, Every Day." Hilarity, of course, ensued.

We get back to Mary's story. Again, everybody looked at the opposite wall. Mary said, in the quickened speech of a 14 year old girl, with a distinct Nogales accent, "On Thanksgiving day I went to Sonora and got laid."

What she meant was that she went to Sonora and came home late, after dinner had started.