"You look kind of glum, Lindsay."
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Of course Lindsay looks glum! He's not berating anybody for breaking any rules! I'm surprised he isn't scolding other travelers on the horse-drawn bus for sitting incorrectly, or speaking too loudly, or sticking their elbows out of the window. So dangerous! You never know when the bus is going to barely fit through an underpass, scraping the side of the bus along the stone wall and shearing off the careless passenger's elbow!
Lindsay is my history teacher from 7th Grade, Ms. Bertaina. She once told a story about traveling in South America on a bus where they were expressly warned to keep their arms inside the windows at all times. She said one man was casually leaning his elbow out and he bent down to pick something up when the bus did exactly as I just stated, scraping against an outer wall as it trundled past. Then she said the man looked up surprised and made eye contact with her and she just pursed her lips and nodded at him in a secret "I told you so" scold.
The main thing I remember about her classroom was that on the left-hand side of the chalkboard was the word "a" and on the right-hand side of the chalkboard was the word "lot" because she was going to take off a full letter grade for anybody who wrote "alot" on any of their papers, by God!
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