A Bad Day for a Good Person
Sometimes bad days happen to good people. One such bad day happened on Friday to my friend Lin. Lin is the other Cornell alum in the '05 TFA Corps and one of my best friends. Before Friday, Lin had endured difficulties in his tenure with TFA and the Helena Public School District such as:
1. Getting in a horrible car crash with me on the way to Houston.
2. Getting prepared to teach Algebra I and then, three days before school, switching to teach Pre-Calc, Algebra II, and Geometry.
3. The school district being scrutinized by the state for writing bad checks and generally poor financial management of public funds.
4. Racial slurs from his students.
Then there was this past Friday, when a student or students took his bag out of his classroom, destroyed his materials, stole his calculator and USB key. Read what happened on his blog: WildThangYang.
And that was just the morning. In the evening, he came to a party at my house and parked on the street in front of my house. My strange across-the-street neighbors (the ones who watch my house from their porch) got angry that someone was parked too close to their driveway (it was my car, and it was parked well away from the edge of their driveway) and so they backed out quickly and straight across the street, right into Lin's car.
It was about one o'clock in the morning. Our party was bumpin'. Lin was on the phone with Shiri, telling her about his bad day, and I had to come back upstairs to tell him that it had gotten worse.
The brother-in-law of the neighbor (the man who had backed into Lin's car) had to go to another town to get his insurance information while Lin, Runner Roommate, GSD Roommate, the people who had seen the accident, and our large and imposing fellow teacher Mr. G-- dealt with the rather belligerent neighbor. Lin should get the money to fix the car from the insurance company (it was clearly entirely the fault of the man who backed ACROSS the deserted street into his car) but it's just another hassle that he certainly doesn't need right now.
1. Getting in a horrible car crash with me on the way to Houston.
2. Getting prepared to teach Algebra I and then, three days before school, switching to teach Pre-Calc, Algebra II, and Geometry.
3. The school district being scrutinized by the state for writing bad checks and generally poor financial management of public funds.
4. Racial slurs from his students.
Then there was this past Friday, when a student or students took his bag out of his classroom, destroyed his materials, stole his calculator and USB key. Read what happened on his blog: WildThangYang.
And that was just the morning. In the evening, he came to a party at my house and parked on the street in front of my house. My strange across-the-street neighbors (the ones who watch my house from their porch) got angry that someone was parked too close to their driveway (it was my car, and it was parked well away from the edge of their driveway) and so they backed out quickly and straight across the street, right into Lin's car.
It was about one o'clock in the morning. Our party was bumpin'. Lin was on the phone with Shiri, telling her about his bad day, and I had to come back upstairs to tell him that it had gotten worse.
The brother-in-law of the neighbor (the man who had backed into Lin's car) had to go to another town to get his insurance information while Lin, Runner Roommate, GSD Roommate, the people who had seen the accident, and our large and imposing fellow teacher Mr. G-- dealt with the rather belligerent neighbor. Lin should get the money to fix the car from the insurance company (it was clearly entirely the fault of the man who backed ACROSS the deserted street into his car) but it's just another hassle that he certainly doesn't need right now.
posted by Jessica at 1:09 PM
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