I was a high school English teacher in Modesto, California from 1999 until 2003. During that time, I had a lot of experiences where I learned that it is really important for me to watch what I say.
One of these little life lessons came about in a comment I made about a student's fashion. Somewhere between high school and college, I had lost any smidgen of fashion awareness I may have once had. This led me to be quite surprised to see a girl walking into my classroom on a warm Spring day with a big silk flower coming up from the space between her big toe and the next toe over (What is the toe equivalent a pointy finger, anyway?)
My lack of fashion sense and a significant shift in clothing nomenclature led me to be even more surprise, and quite embarrassed in fact, when I said loudly and in front of a class of teenagers, "Hey, you have a big flower coming up out of your thong."
That was the day I painfully learned that what I used to call thongs are now called flip-flops and that girls who have barely begun to wear bras now wear panties that are barely anything at all.
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