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1. Your excitement when you find someone who wants to discuss literature with you.

2. The heavy sigh that is released from you as you read the latest essay submitted by a student who still does not know the difference between there and their!

3. Your objection at the idea that any answer can be in the form of a fragment.  FULL SENTENCES ONLY

4. Your ever accumulating collection of interpretations and criticisms of works of literature that you teach, you never get to them all!

5. The battle that is constantly waged against our new abbreviation nation!  B/C W/O !!!! not acceptable forms of English!!!

These are all great! How about:

1. You can't read any novel without thinking about how you might present it to your class.

2. You get excited when Staples has a sale on ink pens.

3. You keep books of word puzzles in your bathroom.

4. You keep a novel in your car just in case of a traffic jam.

5. Your "well-organized" desk has at least three stacks of student papers: ungraded, partially graded, almost finished grading.

In reply to #1:  I'm guilty of nearly all the signs the others have posted.  I have one to add:  You are an English teacher when you know when and how to use objective case pronouns.  "It's for him and me."  NOT: "It's for he and I."

In reply to #1:

This was hilarious! Thanks for the laugh. I named my laptop Merlin.

Don't forget the trips to the chiropractor for "English teacher's neck," or incessantly making puns.

These continue to entertain. The entries about watching inspirational teacher movies, getting excited over the WalMart aisle, and suffering from "English teacher's neck" all cracked me up. So true, so true . . .

What about these experiences? Are they shared?

Did you ever read some science but got bored because you couldn't find the plot?

Has anyone ever said this to you?  "It's not my fault you majored in English."

Have you ever found yourself analyzing your significant other/friends/acquaintances in terms of literary characters?

When you're "off duty" and meet somebody new in a social setting, do people start apologizing for their grammar ahead of time?

Ladies, have you ever written a check in red ink because that's the only pen you have in your purse?

Sign me,

Just Wondering

I am surprised I haven't seen this one yet:

You meet someone new and casually bring up your "kids" and you don't realize until you see the horror on his/her face that you were asked "how many" and without missing a beat you answered "(however many students you have total)" suggesting your super-human-motherly ability to spawn that many offspring before you are 27 years old.

I also visably cringe when I hear someone say "I seen her at the store the other day".

I wig-out when people use good/well improperly too.

And I purposely ignore text messages and instant messages that have any of that "l8r, pwn, noob, txt" and other text-speak in them.

In reply to #2:1. Looking for book stores in every country I visit

2. My "teacher style " glasses

3. Planning everything...

4. Correcting everyone who does not use the British pronunciation for CAN'T

5. Using a loud voice when I come home from school, as if 25 students were supposed to hear me.

In reply to #2:

1. Trying to explain "that" vs ", which" again!

2. Keeping apostrophes out of plurals.

3. Reminding coworkers to place commas after each item in a list.

4. Screaming at "Your Invited."

5. Hoping my coworkers don't hate me in the morning.

Teacher turned Executive Editor....

Ha!

1. I'm single...so hearing guys say things like "throwed" instead of threw... so not gonna happen! lol I can't help it!

2. Correcting kids outside of school.

3. Wanting to correct adult's grammar in public, but I don't. ;)

4. The red underscore on email when I try to abbreviate bothers me.

5. Absolutely despises seeing large advertisements with misspelled words.