Genre Reflection #2

Guide to Monitoring the Hallway in the Morning

The 10 minute bell rings. Grab your coffee mug and mosey out into the hall for the hall duty. Prop open you door and let the show begin… Your brain is about to be flooded with all kinds of strange conversations and images.

There is a couple down the hall flirting with each other and with the thin line between appropriate and not. Watch them closely for the next few minutes in case you need to be the “bad guy” and ruin their public display of lust…I mean “affection.” Ponder how the value of relationships has fallen so far over the past years…

You over hear a couple of nerds talking about the latest and greatest game that they waited in line for to buy last weekend and that they have already beaten it too. You wonder how they have that big of an attention span for a game, but they cannot stay

on task in a class for more than a half an hour…

Two girls walk by in what is considered to be fashionable clothing…you begin

Now to the main event…a meltdown of EPIC proportions.

A girl is running down the hall bawling uncontrollably for reasons unknown at the moment. 

She gets to her teacher whose room is right across from where you assumed your post.

Take a sip of your coffee and begin hardcore eavesdropping.

This very dapper IB guy is slowly walking down the hallway behind her.

As soon as she sees him, she begins to scream,

“I’m sorry Jessie!”

To which he responded,

“It is alright. Just don’t do it again.”

Being that eavesdropping is limited to what I hear and don’t hear. I unfortunately can only make up scenarios in my head as to what act that this guy named Jessie was referring to. Or maybe I will be able to hear the whole story from her teacher, but even if that doesn’t happen…making up scenarios in my head about hallway observations is actually something that I consider to be a fun exercise for my imagination. This short 10 minute period of each day may be, dare I say it, better than people watching at the mall which is the pinnacle of people watching and eavesdropping experiences.

The main things to keep from reading this:

1.Always have a caffeinated beverage in hand while monitoring the hallway.

2. Crack down on offensive behavior that breaks the rules.

3. Stand clear of over-emotional teenagers.

And most importantly…

4. Have fun eavesdropping and letting your imagination run wild.

Thanks for a great semester everyone. :) Happy holidays.