I was next to a student in supermarket and I was buying...

[cliffdiver]

4 bottles of wine and an advent calendar for cats

Can anyone top that?

does anyone remember the video that went viral of when you put a cucumber next to a cat and it freaks out thinking its a snake? they jump really high.

.....well i was buying a bottle of wine, a cucumber and some cat treats when my ex of 6 years and his (beautiful) girlfriend appeared behind me

also, it doesnt work on standard lazy cats. the cat just looked at the cucumber, ate the treats and fucked off.

@alexafindfilms
ROFL That is just hilarious

In my hen night, in Zizzi, a family with three children (all of whom I had taught at various points!) walked past! I was fairly merry but luckily nothing dubious was around... they were both teachers though and although said hi, also said it that they were leaving!

*not because of me I hasten to add, they were walking past to leave anyway!

Possibly outing because I live in a reaalllllllly small place.

Male student X from yr11 got a part time job as an assistant at my dentist... cue maximum awkwardness every time he handed an instrument over and our eyes met over my wide open mouth...

Amazingly student X went on to work in the local Ann Summers after leaving school... luckily I only went in with a friend so I could blame it all on them 😂

@Xenia

I can only speak for myself but as a relatively recently trained teacher “students” is the word everyone is encouraged to use. It seems to be deemed more respectful. You might also refer to the “young people” in your care 👌

Kids or children is regarded as a bit informal/overfamiliar at least in the secondaries where I have taught.

I was in a queue waiting to pay for a small steak and kidney pudding, made by Goblin, a large pack of condoms and a bra.

Not a school teacher, but bumped into my daughter's swimming teacher in the supermarket.

In his basket...
2 x 12 pack of condoms
3 x double pack of Jaffa Cakes

He was planning a good weekend.

Thanks, Flashes. I think we should stick with the more useful word "pupil" which was the one that always used to be used as that it is clearer. Students means university students; pupils means children at school. Anyway I cannot stand against the force of the language changing I suppose.........

Yeah, I saw a student in the queue next to me, when I was buying 12 bottles of wine for my team. He gave me a funny look and nudged his mum. I simply smiled and said, 'see what you lot do to me!'

Irrelevantly to the thread but a littl bit relevantly to Xenia 's tangent..

I used to teach in the UK where even when I stopped teaching 15 years ago, students was creeping in as the way to refer to secondary school children...

I now live in Germany and students is absolutely and strictly university students - apprentices doing an academic classroom based course of study leading to a degree equivalent European Qualifications framework level 6 vocational qualifion (nursing, for example, is done this way)
aren't even students. They're pupils (Schüler) even if they're mature entrants with secondary school children of their own...

Anyone at school, which in some cases can mean up to 20 years old due to the way the school system works here, is most definitely a pupil.

I do agree it's clearer, although I got laughed at for years accidentally refering to my EFL (adult) evening class students as students - was I a university professor? Nope? Not students then! Pupils...

I bumped into my children’s school principal whilst I was wearing Christmas socks (in July), my DH’s enormous hoodie and drinking a Slurpie.

Not one of my finest moments.

Re: Xenia’s point

‘Pupils’ went out with the ark (although possibly not in public schools).

But I’ll take your ‘students’ and raise you ‘learners’. That crept in to use in FE for a few years, but there seems to be a move back to ‘students’ again.

Not something I was buying, but my midwife when I gave birth to dd1 was an ex student!!! I thought it would be my worst nightmare, but actually it was lovely (it helped she was ace)

(My children's father is a teacher ( other than his first year in the private sector) but I am not. I just checked my student twins' (yes they are at university now) old prep school newsletter for last week as I am still sent it and it mostly says "the boys" (as all the pupils are male), never uses "student" and in one place refers to "pupil interactions". So may be it is that private schools have preserved the distinction and others have not).

Ok not a student, but I work with older people and bumped into one in M&S where I was buying some rather nice lingerie, they know I'm separated cue questions... (she was buying thermals!)

‘Pupils’ went out with the ark (although possibly not in public schools).

No it hasn’t! It’s still in widespread use in state schools.

State school, secondary, teacher here. 18 years of referring to them as students. Never pupils.

I used to teach in a school near a large Sainsbury’s. Lots of our students worked in there so I frequently had to do a check of my trolley before choosing which checkout to use. Not sure my sixth form boys would want to scan my san pro

Oh, and after my first mat leave at a parents evening, I realised that the parent sat opposite me was the health visitor who checked my post-birth stitches

I always seemed to run into kids when I was buying underwear. Stood there admiring some pants only to hear "hiya miss!" 🤣🤣🤣

Pregnancy test.

Some former colleagues of mine were at a party where they had a stripper.

She was an ex student.

I had a Yr 11 literally spot me in a supermarket and then literally follow me about while pushing her baby sister in a pram. She kept her distance but she wasn’t even being very subtle about it... I can only assume that she was hopeful I was buying something scandalous and she could report back.
My boyfriend thought it was hilarious

I have no idea why the first ‘literally’ is in that post. Please ignore. I’m not incompetent, honest.

I used to work and live in a one shop town. All the kids worked at this shop. I've been caught buying (by a male year 9) tampons, chocolate and Panadol, and a trolley full of junk