Tuesday, October 9, 2007
creepy and weird
I was at a student's house this evening, and a guy came and knocked on the door. He said he was from the power company and that he needed them to turn off everything electrical in the house so he could read the meter box. That seemed an odd request, since why did he have to come at all to do a meter reading, and why was he there at 6 in the evening. But the brother of my student was talking to their dad at the time and the dad said that he didn't know anything about a guy from the power company coming. So he called Pepco, and they didn't know anything about it, which doesn't bode well. So obviously the next thing he did was call the police. So we sat barricaded in the house waiting for the police to come as this guy wandered around the yard trying to get our attention. And then the power went out, so we were a little concerned that he was going to murder us while we sat there at teh dining room table, or something like that. So eventually the police got there, and the dad got home from work (the mom had taken the youngest kid to soccer practice or some such activity), and the guy left. But it was very disturbing while it was all going on.
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Oh my God. Creepy! That sounds like the beginning of a bad horror movie.
Last week, my office got an e-mail about a guy who's been going around to offices in the building pretending to be a firefighter who needs to inspect the fire safety system. But that's a lot less scary than someone coming to your house.
Did you find out why the power went out? Did the guy cut some wires or something?
Holy Crap! I would have been so freaked out.
does Kaplan's allow some sort of "hazard pay" for people who risk life and limb in the pursuit of better scores for OTHER PEOPLE?
'Cause they should.
Also, tonight in my GRE class, someone told me that I was cheating, because I knew what the words meant on the Verbal section. Cheating. Because knowledge is BAD.
Knowledge is bad. Obviously. That's why you shouldn't have books in your house - as is true of many of my students. It's also sad that having a student know that the correct answer is "better than he", not "better than him", is a rare occurence. And speaking of knowing the definitions to the vocab words, there are some basic roots and prefixes/suffixes that kids should have learned in school, but they didn't. I don't think that knowing that "un-" means "not" is too much to ask.
And I don't know why the power went out. But I don't think he cut the wires, since the power eventually came back on, once the police got there.
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