I went to a writing group

[Scott]

So, my mother goes to a writing group each week. Due to cut backs at work, I was able to rearrange my hours and go with her to it.

I went in there and it was a new batch of people who had signed up for this thing. I sat there. I realized that one of the new people was one of my old teachers from junior high. It's been over forty years and he didn't remember me. Also in the group was the widow of a retired teacher from the same school. 

So. I'm nervous about reading at this thing anyway. And I had written about one of my high school teachers----I took an English class from him but he was a Drama teacher and he had had a role in a movie the summer before I took his class. I had only recently seen the movie. My opening line was, "I just saw one of my old high school teachers get run over by a buffalo."

I wondered if the high school and the junior high teachers socialized---if they knew who I was talking about and if they would feel unkindly about my vaguely mocking a local member of their profession.

But nobody cared. My former teacher complimented my opening line and my use of the word "shenanigans".

So there's not much to tell, really.