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judifilksign ([personal profile] judifilksign) wrote2009-11-05 08:44 pm
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Tell Tale Heart, Take Two

This week, our school is getting the outer walls torn off (made of wood), replacement plywood , and added insulation and new siding put back on.

The noise is not to be believed.  (Reminds me of the commercials "I have a headache this big, and it has EXCEDRIN written all over it.")

So, unwarned of this event, I am attempting to read a short story, drowned out by howling buzz saws, pounding hammers, cracking wood from the crowbars prying them off, and construction workers hollering at one another.

The students, youth leaders and I are all giving one another disbelieving looks as the noise just does not stop.  And then, there are a number of really loud thumps and whacks, getting louder and louder, faster and faster.  A voice on the other side of the wall suddenly snarls "What the f*ck is this sh*t?" as he uncovers something outside he doesn't like.  Every student eye in the room flashes to me.

I slam my book down on my teacher desk.  "Villains!" I shrieked at the wall, "Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! -- Tear up the planks! -- Here, here! -- it is the beating of his hideous, tell-tale heart!"

Every student just about fell out of his chair, laughing.  There is a looooooong silence on the other side of the wall, followed by a sudden flurry of activity and thumping, without any more shouting.

[identity profile] judifilksign.livejournal.com 2009-11-06 02:29 am (UTC)(link)
We'd just read the story in the past couple of weeks, so they well ought to have gotten it! (

(Actually, I think this was the same class where I overacted that same line while reading and had a group of youth leaders outside my room burst in ready to save me.)

[identity profile] judifilksign.livejournal.com 2009-11-06 02:32 am (UTC)(link)
And my DH tells me I ought to have said "Villains! Dis-assemble no more!"

[identity profile] braider.livejournal.com 2009-11-06 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
What's scary is that's how I read it...

[identity profile] filkerdave.livejournal.com 2009-11-06 03:26 am (UTC)(link)
NO DISASSEMBLE!

[identity profile] bercilakslady.livejournal.com 2009-11-06 02:32 am (UTC)(link)
There's the part I was missing. :)