today started off like any other day in ms. drummond’s class. but then, right around 1:55, she left for a doctor’s appointment. and that’s when ms. haley walked in.
poor ms. haley. she came in looking ready to keep things calm, but the second she sat down, the energy completely flipped. chaos.
we were supposed to be working quietly on our computers. yeah… no. people were clicking around, blasting random sounds, playing games, and laughing way too loud. i was no better. i wasn’t even pretending to focus. i was just dancing around, moving from desk to desk, and at one point i was literally screaming my lungs out. like, not words—just sound.
ms. haley tried her best. she’d look up every so often with that teacher face like, “seriously?” and then try to remind us, “alright, let’s stay on task.” but no one was on task. the room was just buzzing with noise.
then ms. brown came storming in. i don’t even know how she knew what was going on, but she was fired up. she started lashing out, telling everyone to stop, pointing at kids left and right. and right after that, ms. felker walked in too. so now it was a two-teacher pile-on, with poor ms. haley just kind of standing there in the middle of it.
and still—people didn’t really stop. kids were laughing, talking, clicking away on their laptops. i tried to keep it low-key after ms. felker showed up, but i was definitely still wiggling in my seat like i couldn’t sit still.
and then, to top it all off, the bus ride home was its own nightmare. somebody decided they were going to annoy me nonstop. poking the seat, making dumb noises, just being extra for no reason. like, i had survived a full-blown substitute meltdown, and now i had to deal with this too?
so yeah. ms. drummond’s 1:55 doctor’s appointment = the exact moment the universe decided to hand us substitute chaos day.
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