Hometeaching Woes
Today we bring up something that has been sure to plague all of us here at BYU: HORRIBLE HOMETEACHERS. Now many of you out there are shaking your heads and screaming, "How dare you malign such a sacred institution!" You fools! I'm not maligning hometeaching, but merely some of the weirdos that have hometaught me in the past.
We now present some of the common Hometeaching Mishaps which could happen to you and how to fix them. These are all true situations that happened to me at one time or another.
Case Number One
Your Hometeachers come in and they say, "Let's just give you a brief lesson". You look at your watch thinking, "It had darn well better be brief because I have things I have to get done like my daily dose of Seinfeld (or Simpsons or Gilmore Girls)" Soon it's been 90 minutes, and 30 minutes ago you thought it would be over soon when he said "In conclusion."
The Solution
Ward Prayer was at 8:30, so we had them come over at 8:05 or 8:15 and then we could duck out real quick for Ward Prayer.
Case Number Two
My roommate worked graveyard shifts, and consequently slept from the morning to the afternoon. Our hometeacher asked me if he would be okay to come over at 2:15, I said, "No, Norm will still be asleep then." He says, "Okay, we're coming over at 2:15" with that glint in his eye that says, 'Norm's asleep so Norm must be a sinner.' So I say to him, "NO YOU WILL NOT. THAT IS WHEN NORM SLEEPS."
Luckily for him his brain actually comprehended what I said the second time. If not I would have tried to do it with my modified version of sign language most of which consists of backhands to the face.
We now present some of the common Hometeaching Mishaps which could happen to you and how to fix them. These are all true situations that happened to me at one time or another.
Case Number One
Your Hometeachers come in and they say, "Let's just give you a brief lesson". You look at your watch thinking, "It had darn well better be brief because I have things I have to get done like my daily dose of Seinfeld (or Simpsons or Gilmore Girls)" Soon it's been 90 minutes, and 30 minutes ago you thought it would be over soon when he said "In conclusion."
The Solution
Ward Prayer was at 8:30, so we had them come over at 8:05 or 8:15 and then we could duck out real quick for Ward Prayer.
Case Number Two
My roommate worked graveyard shifts, and consequently slept from the morning to the afternoon. Our hometeacher asked me if he would be okay to come over at 2:15, I said, "No, Norm will still be asleep then." He says, "Okay, we're coming over at 2:15" with that glint in his eye that says, 'Norm's asleep so Norm must be a sinner.' So I say to him, "NO YOU WILL NOT. THAT IS WHEN NORM SLEEPS."
Luckily for him his brain actually comprehended what I said the second time. If not I would have tried to do it with my modified version of sign language most of which consists of backhands to the face.
posted by CT at 3:41 PM
2 Comments:
At least your ht's caught on to "norm's" plight. My ht's and vt's never did catch on. I rarely went to relief society 'cause I needed to sleep, but every week my vt would ask my roomates "where's traci today?" "Is she sick?"
You see - he never really DID catch on - he still thought Norm was a sinner. He did however catch on to the tone in my voice that said, 'If you come over at 2:15 I will bodily throw you out of the apartment.'
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