Kinda weird to think about it...

Tommygunn · #1 06-04-2010, 04:52 PM

My oldest brother's friend (whom I know fairly well) is 25, or 26 I can't remember, right? It weird to see it but, he's married, has a 5 year old child, and is a highschool history teacher. I remember when he was like 16, I saw him a year or so back at a dinner party and he sat and made jokes and talked about music. I look on his facebook wall and his students are on there debating with him over stuff and calling him Mr., Sir ect. Its insane, the more I think about it the crazier it is.

It seems like it wasn't long ago when he was how old I am now.

It seriously blows my mind. Anyone else have experiences close to this?

DigMe · #2 06-04-2010, 04:56 PM

Yeah it's weird when older teenagers Or college students call me Mr. and Sir. Ain't no WAY I would be friends with my students on Facebook though! Then again my students are 9 and 10 so they shouldn't be on there anyway. I won't accept friend requests from their parents either.

bc

**SoComSurfing** · #3 06-04-2010, 04:59 PM

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Originally Posted by DigMe

Yeah it's weird when older teenagers Or college students call me Mr. and Sir. ...
bc

That's only out of their fear-based respect that stems from their knowing that bc=tQ.

MatticusMania · #4 06-04-2010, 04:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Tommygunn

My oldest brother's friend (whom I know fairly well) is 25, or 26 I can't remember, right? It weird to see it but, he's married, has a 5 year old child, and is a highschool history teacher. I remember when he was like 16, I saw him a year or so back at a dinner party and he sat and made jokes and talked about music. I look on his facebook wall and his students are on there debating with him over stuff and calling him Mr., Sir ect. Its insane, the more I think about it the crazier it is.

It seems like it wasn't long ago when he was how old I am now.

It seriously blows my mind. Anyone else have experiences close to this?

Thats called LIFE, man. Get used to it, it happens fast. Im almost 26 now and its sometimes hard for me not to think of myself as still a kid.

5StringBlues · #5 06-04-2010, 05:01 PM

Thomas,I know you remember my reaction when you addressed me as "Sir".

I swear I was just 30 yesterday.

Tommygunn · #6 06-04-2010, 05:06 PM

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Originally Posted by 5StringBlues

Thomas,I know you remember my reaction when you addressed me as "Sir".

I swear I was just 30 yesterday.

You guys should've seen it. He said something and I missed it and I turned and said "sir?" and almost everybody stopped and turned their heads saying "Whaaaaaaa!!??"

Tommygunn · #7 06-04-2010, 07:37 PM

I think I'm going to call him Mr. "insert name" from now on lol. I made a joke about it on one of his pics on FB (it was him and my brother sipping on beers, it was a while beck) and he was like "Yes, I've moved up in the world".

**bassybill** · #8 06-04-2010, 07:43 PM

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Originally Posted by DigMe

Yeah it's weird when older teenagers Or college students call me Mr. and Sir. Ain't no WAY I would be friends with my students on Facebook though! Then again my students are 9 and 10 so they shouldn't be on there anyway. I won't accept friend requests from their parents either.

bc

I've got a lot of friends on Facebook who are ex-students of mine (kids at the time, now grown up).

Darkstrike · #9 06-04-2010, 07:46 PM

Train rolls on...

tplyons · #10 06-04-2010, 08:57 PM

I'm 23 years old working in corporate America, and I get called sir from time to time. It just doesn't feel right. To me, I'm just a kid starting off at the bottom floor. Sir is reserved for old men, and Mr. Lyons is my dad. I've always just been Tim and if anything strays from that... I'm not sure how to take it.

iamlowsound · #11 06-04-2010, 09:20 PM

I am just Justin, not sir, not Mr "X" (that would be my dad), ect. I am not a fan of titles and for the most part I don't use them for others as well. Unless I run into one of my old teachers or something like that.

lowsound

MakiSupaStar · #12 06-04-2010, 09:54 PM

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Originally Posted by DigMe

Yeah it's weird when older teenagers Or college students call me Mr. and Sir. Ain't no WAY I would be friends with my students on Facebook though! Then again my students are 9 and 10 so they shouldn't be on there anyway. I won't accept friend requests from their parents either.

bc

Damn straight.

jp58 · #13 06-04-2010, 10:02 PM

I have a friend in almost the same situation. He isn't married, nor does he have kids. He is employed full-time at the highschool and replaced my favorite teacher ever. Kinda odd seeing a close personal friend getting ready to teach full time. I remember just a few years ago, he was a sophomore in college and giving me advice on applications, and dealing with college departments.

DigMe · #14 06-04-2010, 10:03 PM

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Originally Posted by bassybill

I've got a lot of friends on Facebook who are ex-students of mine (kids at the time, now grown up).

I'm somewhat more private with my Facebook. I also am not Facebook friends with any of my coworkers. It's not that I do anything wild and crazy that gets revealed on Facebook or anything. I don't know...I just don't like the idea of it.

bc

doctorjazz · #15 06-04-2010, 10:22 PM

I'm 21. My mom's a fourth grade teacher, and I've always gone and helped out in her classroom a lot, since even before I was in the fourth grade myself. The past couple years, she's started having the kids call me "Mr. Piner."

I'm not ready for that. At all.

**bassybill** · #16 06-05-2010, 12:50 AM

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Originally Posted by DigMe

I'm somewhat more private with my Facebook. I also am not Facebook friends with any of my coworkers. It's not that I do anything wild and crazy that gets revealed on Facebook or anything. I don't know...I just don't like the idea of it.

bc

Brad, I can certainly understand that and would be a little leery of FB "friending" any of my current students, even though they're adults. But it's nice to stay in touch with folks whom I taught as 11-18 year olds and who are now well into their 20s/30s. Occasionally they find me on FB and send me a friend request, just for old times' sake, and I don't see any problem with it if they're good sorts and I'd like to hear how they're doing (this is true of the great majority). They seem comfortable calling me Bill now instead of "Sir", and that suits me just fine.

One of the rewarding things about being a teacher is finding out how the kids you taught have turned out. I've had the occasional reason to seriously despair, unsurprisingly, but most of them are great folks.

One of my close collleagues, now in his mid-thirties, is an ex-pupil of mine. As Mr. Darkstrike says above, the train rolls on...

Indiana Mike · #17 06-05-2010, 05:19 AM

I'm so old ... when I run into friends from back in the day they often have hot daughters , that are old enough for me to date...legally...

MEKer · #18 06-05-2010, 07:22 AM

It's always good to raise kids with propriety, decorum and manners. It speaks well of them when they use "Sir" or "Ma'am" where/when it is called for.

Note to English pickers: I did not end the last sentence with a preposition. The "called for" is a compound adjective meaning "appropriate" or "needed".

**cheezewiz** · #19 06-05-2010, 09:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Indiana Mike

I'm so old ... when I run into friends from back in the day they often have hot daughters , that are old enough for me to date...legally...

Yep. This. I'll be 46 in two weeks. It really doesn't feel any different than when I was 14, playing bass at a CYO dance. I still hate being called "Sir", unless it's by some kid chasing one of my daughters, and I hate being called Mr. Del Turco even more.

DigMe · #20 06-05-2010, 09:39 AM

I also hate when people call me Mr. Del Turco.

bc