Q: Did you notice that while you were teaching in North Carolina last weekend I didn’t ask you Five Questions?
Eric: I did and I thank you because there wasn’t even time to ask me any questions. I was the last teacher out of the convention hall finishing my last few students as they were breaking down the tables.
Friday is market night for the teachers and the hotel rearranges all the tables. This means I have to take all my tools from that day’s class and pack them up. I literally only had an hour to find something to eat, pick you up at the hotel and then start setting up for marketplace which started at 8pm. We got home after 10pm. I was over exhausted and knew I had to leave very early to re-set up my class again with all the tools packed up the night before.
(You can tell you never had a a corporate job…)
Q: Speaking of NC, someone worked really hard creating those name tags, including yours. Why again did you not wear yours?
Eric: For one, I never wear my tag. Everyone knows me and I always have a partner in crime if Billy Owens doesn’t wear his, which he doesn’t either. I said to myself “If Billy wears his, I will wear mine.” The other issue is that the people that make the teachers name badges are women which is okay but they are usually large with flowers or beads and lots of pink and other colors.
(Yeah, I know. You are a small tag kind of guy. I hung your tag on our large basket tree and it looks great.)
Q: How many times have you been pulled over by a cop?
Eric: Three. Not bad.
Q: Gossip is not good. With that being said, have you heard anything good while at your convention last weekend?
Eric: No not really, all tame stuff. But I have a cute story:
I had a student that was a little behind everyone and I was helping her finish up. She asked me if she talked too much and I said “no, you are a great student.” Then she said one of her fellow students told her if she didn’t talk so much she might have gotten finished.
Q: What aggravated you this week?
Eric: Well, not really an aggravation but an observation for that ‘great student’: She definitely wasn’t the biggest talker! It was someone else who will remain unnamed. But again, not an aggravation just pointing out that some big talkers get their baskets done in plenty of time. So every student works at their own pace whether they talk or not.
Btw Pattie and I were really great! We got finished and didn’t talk too much lol
Actually Eric didn’t tell me who the “big talker” was and added that surprisingly it was not Joanne or Pattie! He further told me that whenever Pattie is in his class, he needs to have you there too because she stays in her seat almost the whole class instead of wandering around gabbing for hours.