Everybody's played this game, right? It's the one where a group of people sit in a circle and one person begins by whispering something in the ear of a person next to her/him, who whispers into the ear of the next person and so on until it gets back to the person who started. The person who started then tells everyone what he was told compared to what s/he said at the beginning.
Real life telephone:
Back at Thanksgiving, my niece noticed my Ipod Touch and asked me how much I paid for it. I told them how I got it from you guys. Upon hearing this, my mom pressed me for details, so I told everyone about everything that lead up to your class giving me the iMac.
About a month later, our family got together with a bunch of friends and relatives for Christmas Eve. A few minutes after I arrived, one of my aunts approached me.
"I hear that you're the most popular teacher in Mill Valley!" she exclaimed.
"What?" I said, "that's not true. Where did you hear that?"
"I know a lot of people in Mill Valley," she said, "word gets around."
"Well," I said, "you heard wrong. There are lots of popular teachers in Mill Valley."
She patted me on the arm and left.
Later, one of my uncles saw me.
"Hey, congratulations!" he said, "I heard you won some big award for teaching!"
"Huh?" I said.
"Yeah," continued my uncle, "you got a big write up in the paper and everything!"
"That's news to me," I said.
The next time anyone asks me where I got some splashy gift, I going to say I bought it myself.....
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