Monday, March 8, 2010

Stumped by an English test

I am back at the Asheboro high school. I have to take an English final I never took. I never went to class either. The class is a requirement to have graduated. There are two other students that are also being allowed to make up the test. The teacher gives us the tests in a classroom, but we have to take the tests in desks sitting in the middle of an otherwise empty parking lot.

I have no idea how to answer the questions. One of them is "Give an example of an R.R.S.S.I." Frustrated, I think about guessing it means a dialogue between two people where one learns something from the other. It seems futile for me to be taking this test because even if I didn't technically graduate, I've been working in the real world for decades.

It's the last day of school and students are mulling about on the sidewalks around the parking lot. A binder blows to my feet. It has an English final exam in it and I think about looking at the answers, but don't. After I decide not to, I notice it's for a different grade anyway. I just sit there and don't write anything down on the test.

I have to walk up a steep snow covered embankment in the woods to turn it in. The teacher is grading tests across a table. I lay down my untaken test and just as I formulate the words, "You know, if you ever want to have sex with a student, I'd be up for it," she turns into a more beautiful and younger woman. I reach across the table and touch her arm. Everything turns to slow motion. We lean across the table and kiss.

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