In seventh grade, I still lived in Lawrence, Kansas. I know. Poor me. However, my English teacher’s name was, strangely enough, Mrs. Lawrence. Mrs. Lawrence was an interesting person. I remember that she once bragged that she had been committed to an institution and was literally certifiable. She also once told a story about how the US government was experimenting with monkeys and robots and had actually grafted a monkey’s head onto a robot’s body and the monkey was able to control the robot for several minutes before the head died. I actually believed that one for quite awhile.
However, despite the fact that she was so very strange, I really liked her. She was definitely my favorite teacher. Other than those facts and that I had a crush on a girl named Ashley in the class, I only remember one other thing about Mrs. Lawrence. She gave me one life lesson I will never forget: “You are only given five exclamation points to use in your entire lifetime. Once you use up those five you don’t get anymore. God will pop your head off like a pimple when you get to heaven if you do.” Okay, so I added the last words to her originally statement, but I do remember her saying that she wanted to pop the heads of students like a pimple when they annoyed her… Did I mention she was really strange?
Anyway, I most certainly agree with her assessment regarding exclamation points. Perhaps the limit to five per lifetime is a little extreme, but it makes the point.
Don’t use so many exclamation points people! It’s really annoying! You don’t have to be so excited about it!!!!!
Okay. So, to make the point, I’ve now used seven. Crap!!!!! I hope having my head popped off won’t hurt too much!
Cheers.
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