–From Susan Parkes, University of Tennessee College of Law, Date of event: circa 1980
I guess you could call this a socratic mishap.
In my third year at the University of Tennessee, I was taking Decedent’s Estates. The professor went up and down the rows of the class calling on us. When she got to the fellow sitting next to me, the questions and answers went very well and no problems were obvious. But I could tell my classmate was getting angrier with each remark.
As class ended we walked out of the room together and he exploded, “I can’t stand it when someone doesn’t look at me when they talk to me!”
I responded, “She was doing the best she can. She’s cross-eyed.”
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