Okay, so yesterday I posted an anecdote about my new job as a teacher (about a secretary who told me all about my colleague’s weight loss while I was asking what she looks like now) and what do you know, I have a new anecdote today and it’s even more messed-up.

One teacher was bragging because she did so much sport at the beginning of the summer holidays that she dropped fourteen pounds in very little time and damaged her vertebrae. She insists that it was very healthy and that she didn’t do too much exercise, all the while wondering how on earth she’ll be able to stand in front of the class.

These people work with teenagers.