Awkward Situations: Blood, sweat, and tears, but mostly blood.

As a teacher you work with a lot of paper, and as such the risk of minor yet horrendously painful injuries such as paper cuts can often occur...without you knowing it.

One test day I had to photo copy the tests for my students. It was about a group of six people and they were pretty nice. I was running late that afternoon, so I quickly photo copied the tests, stapled them, and ran upstairs.

They were taking their tests, quietly, when suddenly a student looks up and me and holds his test up. In his very French accents he goes, "Uh, is this blood?" and points to the page. I look, and sure enough, there was a giant blood smear across that page. I quickly thought, where did that come from? I looked down and saw I had paper cut my pointer finger unknowingly and there was dried blood around it. There was also a little blood on my shirt and pants as well. Awkward.

I said, "Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry. Let me copy you a new test." He just shrugged and goes, "No problem. I don't mind blood." Considering the French Revolution I suppose I can imagine a little blood never scared a Frenchman.