You know you're a teacher when...

[MrsCK]

Wimbledon is on in the background and you hear "Broady's made good progress this year" and you're immediate thought is "how many levels?"

Anyone got any others?

[Juniper44]

You watch Peppa Pig and find yourself levelling her story.

Incidentally, I'd call it a 3b. Pretty good for a 4 year old.

[downgraded]

All the hyper kids at a 6 year olds birthday party immediately stop what they are doing and sit obediently on the mat for cake when you bark at them in your teacher voice

[Lizziewarmington]

When you realise that next weekend is the only term time one you won't have to work in the whole year.

[breward]

When your 15 year old dd's friends still call you 'Mrs ...' Because you taught them when they were 4! They just can't get their head around calling you by your first name.

[nothingtodotoday]

You take charge of bus trips on foreign holidays, counting everyone on and off the bus!

[PurpleDaisies]

And only get haircuts in the school holidays.

[PurpleDaisies]

You ask people you know if they are enjoying their holiday...forgetting only teachers get the 6 week break. Usually met with a stony glare and a very grumpy "I'm still at at work".

Or you go on a speed awareness course and think "that video would be good for teaching braking distances".

[SuffolkNWhat]

When the end is in sight but just that little too far away to fully unwind and crack out the "fun" activities that enable you to finally clear up your classroom cupboard you have been meaning to tackle since the second week of October.

[CharlesRyder]

Oh no, thatone - I am in exactly that lull! I was planning on rolling down the summer holidays hill. Please don't tell me I can't!!

[thatone]

You start to relax thinking 'reports done, levels submitted all summer events finished' when you find out you have an observation in two days and then you remember that this kind of lull is very deceptive.

[phlebasconsidered]

You buy 30 bars of value soap on Friday and spend Saturday evening with a glass of wine practising soap carving for Monday.

You know all the rules for playground games at 45. And knew them all 35 years ago, before "Stuck in the Mud" became "Stuck on the loo"

[albertcamus]

You're at the airport / on the ferry / en route to holiday. You have :

1 Eyebags
2 Glass of wine in hand
3 Irrational dislike of all children, including your own

[MythicalKings]

You give the "over the glasses death stare" to misbehaving DCs while out and about and they quieten down and slink back to their mystified parents.

[echt]

Oh my God, Esker, you're not wrong.

I go…oooh nice use of the subjunctive there. :o

[echt]

You have school work you take home to do that never gets out of the car, it just goes for a holiday.

.

I'm in Australia, so already on holiday
But only for a fortnight

Ooh, the sun's come out. Yay.

[elephantoverthehill]

You need the summer hols Esker

[Esker]

You know when you're an English teacher when... In conversation with friends you mentally 'mark' their use of language. Eg a friend remarked that they were 'hemorrhaging money' and I thought: 'Great use of metaphor AND complex vocabulary- DOUBLE TICK'

[toomuchicecream]

DH says that you know you're married to a teacher when...

you can't find something you need and realise it's been taken in to fucking school.

(In his case the cling film to wrap his lunch yesterday which was with the greaseproof paper and tin foil in my bag, ready to be tested to see if it would be a suitable material to make an umbrella from).

[ceebelle83]

You feel really guilty about taking time off when you are sick...with a kidney infection...at 33 weeks pregnant...in a heatwave!

[elephantoverthehill]

The only time you stop clock watching is at the end of August when you are properly relaxed. 2.45 is the start of the afternoon during the holidays not the end of the day.

[HettyD]

Thought of another...when you plan to see 'holiday' friends who you only ever see during school holidays!!

[FuzzyWizard]

You know you look like a teacher when random kids at tube stations that you've never met let alone taught call you Miss. I was even in weekend clothes!

[CharlesRyder]

In morrisons your DH puts back his packet of ham because you've used teacher voice on your 3 yr old and he thought you were talking to him.

[nailsathome]

The man in morrisons puts back his packet of ham because you've used teacher voice on your 3 yr old and he thought you were talking to him

[MidniteScribbler]

....you can hold your bladder for an impossibly long time.

On the same note.... you always take every opportunity when you can to go to the toilet because you never know when the next chance will be.