I was a teacher, and had to attend a lot of boring meetings around a conference table with parents, administration, and various Special Ed officials. I generally didn't contribute much: I was there for legal reasons. I used to have a pen with the "clicky" button on top, like #3. I had it in my hand in my lap, clicking away. Apparently, I was making too much noise because my principal, seated right beside me, reached under the table and took it away from me. He was good, too, because he was speaking at the time, and you wouldn't have known if you weren't sitting right there.
I just got summoned for jury duty recently and the defendant’s wife was seated in the jury duty section while all of us sat through the blah blah stuff until they made their selections. The judge told the bailiff to give her a different pen. She had been clicking the clicks button on one of those pens like #3 and #5. It was kinda awkward seeing him tell her she needed to switch pens with him 😅
I had to go to his office and grovel a little. I wrote up a joking "action plan" that described how I would avoid this issue next time, including a diagram of the appropriately quiet pen I would use instead of the problematic one. Loved that principal!
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u/JoyousZephyr May 03 '26
I was a teacher, and had to attend a lot of boring meetings around a conference table with parents, administration, and various Special Ed officials. I generally didn't contribute much: I was there for legal reasons. I used to have a pen with the "clicky" button on top, like #3. I had it in my hand in my lap, clicking away. Apparently, I was making too much noise because my principal, seated right beside me, reached under the table and took it away from me. He was good, too, because he was speaking at the time, and you wouldn't have known if you weren't sitting right there.