For example, Mary and Margaret are friends. Mary is crap at paying attention.
Me: "Mary, let's go. Get your instrument out, your bow has more than enough rosin on it, c'mon."
Margaret: "Miss B SHE WASN'T DOING ANYTHING!!!!"
Mary: *looks at me innocently like, 'What, I'm not...'* ... Clearly, Mary.
Later in class
Me: "Margaret, you should not have your phone out. This is the second time I've warned you. Hand it over."
Margaret: "MARY HAS HER PHONE OUT ALL OF THE TIME AND YOU NEVER TAKE IT FROM HER!!!!!"
You just can't win.
Anyway. Something I laugh about a lot with my friends are the Tattles Tales. You know, those kids in the middle of class who are like, "MISS...MISS...JACOB HAS HIS PHONE OUT! ARE YOU GONNA TAKE IT???" *insert eye roll and deep breath*
I have a really excellent comeback (I think) that I use liberally. So much so that they usually just roll their eyes and say, "Seriously, Miss B? That's all you've got?" It's quite genius, though, and I hope someday I hear it being used so that I can say, "Yes! I started something!"
Situation:
Kid: "Miss! So and so is doing this totally irrelevant thing to class that doesn't really bother anyone but I'm going to tell you anyway cause I'm tired of being the only one to get in trouble!"
Teacher (loudly, to the class): "Hey-oh! Has anyone seen Harry Potter? 'Cause I need someone to catch a snitch!"
It's good, right? I thought so.
