Gabriel Woods-Lamanuzzi

So that's OK.

It's OK.

I have time.

So I get my car and I go to the grocery store to get some backup cornstarch.

And when I get back to my car, the battery is dead.

Okay, by the time I get to school, I'm running way late, and I have no goop.

I am officially goop-less, which is not a place you want to be in if you want to win over a classroom full of second graders.

So I rush to the back of the room, and the head teacher's running things, and I'm kind of frantically but carefully mixing the cornstarch and water in my backup Tupperware with my spoon, and it's working.

I've got this muck in front of me, right?

It's great.

and I turn around to get the worksheets out of my backpack, and I turn back around and the spoon is gone.

And I look for a culprit nearby, and there's no students, and I realize, you know, I lift the Tupperware up, and there at the bottom of the goop, through the see-through bottom, is my spoon.

So with a sigh, I reach in and take out my spoon, and I'm standing there, hand-dripping goop, frantic, frenzied eyes, you know, looking around the room, and you know what?

The kid's...

Freaking loved it, right?

When we got the lesson rolling, there were squeals of delight and kids were shouting for their friends, hey, look at this.

And there was dried goop dust on hands and pens and desks and my soul.

And students were arguing if it was a liquid or a solid.

And there was that one kid who was saying that it was debating that it was a gas, because if you're lucky, there's always that one kid.

Only if you're lucky.