They have not stopped.
After telling my now-former students about my response to Elysha’s initial declaration of love – “I’m flattered” – my students spent the rest of the year, including our graduation ceremony, throwing those two terrible words back in my face.
Such a wonderful, terrible bunch of children.
Last week, I received an email from one of these students along with a photo. She had found one of my books in a bookstore in Bethany.
Whitlock’s Book Barn, I assume. A lovely shop that deals in used and rare books.
Along with the photo of my book was a single sentence that read:
“I am so flattered to see this in Bethany!!”
Almost as annoying than the use of the word “flattered” was the double exclamation point. I taught her that only amateurs and monsters use more than one mark of punctuation at a time.
