Funniest 8am EVER.
I show up, and the first thing I see is the giant vat of coffee sitting on the end of one of the tables. This is not new; our prof is nice enough to buy us all coffee on various days, especially on Fridays. I'm actually like ten minutes early at this point, so I grab some coffee and sit down.
That's when I notice the other thing:
nobody from my group is in class with me. I was only expecting one out of three in the first place: one of my group members had an appendectomy the other day, and another is at his sister's wedding, but there was supposed to be at least one other person there.
So I'm sitting there sipping my coffee when the prof finally decides to start class (five minutes late - we had about 50% attendance when the bell rang, so he held off a bit until a few more latecomers straggled in). He begins with announcements, and the following conversation took place:
Prof: "OK, so one of the feedbacks I got from you guys was to keep announcing when the homework was due. The next homework is due Sunday-"
Student (in the back): "Wait. Why is it due
Sunday?"
Prof: "Do you
ever pay attention?"
So everyone in the class bursts out laughing pretty hard, when - lo and behold! - my missing group member and another student come in, seven minutes late. The prof breaks off from ridiculing the kid in the back row and turns to them:
Prof: "Thanks for joining us!"
Student (not my groupmate): "It wasn't our fault! We got stuck behind the handicapped kid!"
(At this point, everyone starts laughing even harder. Tears threaten to come to my eyes.)
Prof: "Excuse me?"
Student: "Well, you know, you get stuck behind the bus, then the door opens and the ramp comes down..."
(Stunned silence for a few seconds.)
Prof: "You know, JD, maybe when you say something you should just say it to yourself."
At this point I'm full-out crying from laughter sitting in my seat. It was another five minutes before the class was back under control and the professor could move forward with the actual lecture.
