Thursday 13 September 2012

Ground Zero


So Andrew wakes up September 12th with a wet plastic bag stuck to his foot and a half bag of water soaking into his bed. He feels quite good knowing that he has fixed his dislocated toe only a few hours ago. He calls on Stephen and they head to work. Andrew limps into the staff room and tells the story. The co-teachers all say that he should go to the hospital. Nonsense Andrew thinks. So he leaves the school to work at a new school that the director has opened. This school has awkward staircases, half floors and mazes between classrooms. 

After the 1st class he is guided to the next and on the staircase he bumps his toe on a step (in his socks). 

Andrew teacher:              ‘OOOOOOWWWWWWE!!!!’ 

He sits down as the Korean teacher looks at him in amazement. He eventually makes it to the classroom sucking wind through his teeth. Then as he throws himself on the floor of the classroom grabbing his foot:

Chorus of kids:                  ‘Hello teacher! How are you today?’

Andrew teacher:              ‘I HAVE A SORE TOE! AAAAHHHH!’

The kids don’t understand. Andrew takes his sock off to see what’s going on. The Korean teacher and the kids are baffled. Eventually he falters through the lesson and forgets about the toe.

He makes it to the next class on his own; it’s a joint class with Sunny teacher and Andrew teacher is late. He opens the door without a sound. Sunny doesn’t suspect a thing. He presses his finger to his lips - the children know what this means. The trap is set. He steps close behind her and before he gets to frighten her she takes a step back onto his toe...

Andrew teacher:              ‘AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!’

Sunny teacher:                 ‘ AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!’

Andrew teacher:              ‘Will you take me to hospital?

...Sunny calls the director and gives Andrew the phone. The director is in true form.

Director:                              ‘My Andrew! What happened? Are you okay?’

Andrew teacher:              ‘I dislocated my toe last night and put it back in place myself; it’s been
                                            getting worse and worse throughout the day. I think I need to go to
                                            hospital.’

Director:                              ‘mmm...I think it's better if you finish your class...because big 
                                               problem...you know? Jennifer will take you after you finish classes, 
                                               okay?’

She hung up before he agrees. Later Jennifer teacher picked him up and headed to the hospital. He had and X-Ray. The bottom right of the top section of the big toe.
 


Jennifer tells the doctor what happened, the good doctor smirks then nods in approval when he sees the picture of the sideways toe.

The good doctor:                             ‘Blahblahblahblahblayeo’

Jennifer teacher:                             ‘He says if you didn’t straighten your toe he would have had to 
                                                           do it anyway.’

Andrew teacher:                              ‘So I did a good job?’

Jennifer teacher:                             ‘Umm not really but not bad’

 Andrew is led to a backroom where he gets injected with something in the ass. Then they put him on a bed and start to put a half cast on his foot



1 day later





He found out today that he has to go back to the doctors tomorrow to get a full cast  and keep it on for a month.





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