32. We Are Miss
Our economics teacher was a complete legend. But one semester he had to take off because he broke his leg badly surfing, so we had a replacement. She was not a legend. One time we were all talking (year 12, so final year of school) and she got sick of us, so she said that we could only talk if it was about the work we were doing, which at the time was to do with the economic impact of unemployment. After about 5 minutes (if that) we started talking about random sh*t again.
My mate was telling us about how his older sister had just had a daughter and he’d gone to meet her the weekend before. We obviously were a bit too loud and the teacher heard us and called out “excuse my table in the middle, it doesn’t sound like you are talking about your work.” without any hesitation, I turned around and said, “of course we are miss, his niece is unemployed.” I didn’t think it was that great of a comeback, but the class lost all their sh*t and one of the guys came up to me after class and said “crazy, you’ve always been a pretty funny guy, but that was hilarious”. I didn’t have much self-confidence at the time so it meant a lot to me.