In 2019, a Colorado teacher known to her students as Ms. Sailers left for winter break to get married and returned with a new name and an immediate sense of dread. She had gone from one safe, middle-school-appropriate surname to Mrs. Jordyn Glasscock ...
“My husband was amazing and made it very clear he wouldn’t be offended if I didn’t want to take his last name,” Glasscock tells TODAY.com. “But, I thought about it for a while, and it was really important to me that we have the same last name for our future kids.”
Not long after returning to school, she was standing at morning drop-off when a seventh grader approached her with a wrapped box. He proudly explained that he had bought her a gift with his own money “because you got married and changed your name,” Glasscock, 28, recalled in a TikTok video.
Red flags, she said, began going off immediately. In that moment, she was certain this was it - she was about to get fired - her career was over before it had really begun. She considered not opening the box at all. Then she lifted the lid.
NO, ribit ... it was NOT what you are thinking, you dirty-minded old lecher, you!!!
Inside was a glass chicken, a gift that, in context, carried a second meaning she realized immediately.
“To this day six years later, this glass chicken sits on my desk,” she said in the clip. “It is the best thing I have ever received. I will cherish it for the rest of my life.” ...
And as for you, ribit ... go wash your brainpan out with soap!
http://www.today.com/parents/family/teacher-glasscock-funny-name-gift-story-rcna248073?search=teacher%20glasscock
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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