Wednesday, January 03, 2007

What They Left Behind

Before the student athletes came storming back to the writing center today, I spent a lot of time cleaning the place up. I cannot believe what they left lying around before break and am trying to decide what would be immoral to take home with me. I found:

1 Hokies sweatshirt (not sure why my students even had this to start with)
2 black umbrellas
7 million USB drives, each with 1G of storage space
1 pink cell phone
3 backpacks full of school supplies like books and folders
3 sets of dorm keys
AND my very favorite thing, and I have a slight guess which student might have left this, is a cardboard box containing one slice of chocolate cake and a small fuzz of mold

Who leaves behind cake? I can understand your USB drive, not caring about your cell phone, and hating your dorm room so much you disregard the keys. But cake? Wasting chocolate cake? It took all that I had not to reach in there and scrape off the mold and eat that cake, 2 weeks old though it may be. These kiddos are made of different stuff than I, that's for darn sure.

6 comments:

PeaceLoveMath said...

What does it mean that Harry is Janey's lobster? We are confused.

eew, i'm glad you didn't eat 2-week-old cake. yuck.

i would totally assess which USB drive belongs to the richest student, and tell him you didn't find that one. free USB drive, his fault for leaving it!

Anonymous said...

You know that means you aren't surrounded by rugby players- what rugby player would leave food behind?? A wing maybe...

~Val

PS I'd look for porn on those USB's

Katy said...

lobsters mate for life. they pick the perfect partner and stay with them! harry is jane's lobster.

K Train said...

please wing's seem to always be the biggest eaters, bigger than a prop except that the winger simply has a faster metabolism...and we hate them for it, especially when they knock the ball on :)

Emily said...

hell, if theres 7 million USB drives noone will miss them. and it'll save you $30 :)

also, while Val has a point regarding the food, I have to agree most little backs can eat as much as the forwards (although they tend to not eat as much dessert. perhaps that is the difference. hmm.)

kk said...

I would keep it all and sell it on ebay:+) I bet someone would even buy the cake with mold if you said it looked like The Virgin Mary!!!!!