Math Class

This is about my first math class where I'm presently studying. I have taken a coursework on discrete mathematics. A lady teacher was assigned to teach us. Since it is the first day, I jovially hopped off to university. I look up the notice board, find the class room and the course timing.

The discrete math class is to start at 11:20 A.M but at that time, the hall is occupied by the previous class and the teacher is still teaching. Another ten minutes pass, she is still on with her class. I decided to find out what's taking her so long. I go ahead and knock on the door.

Math Teacher: Yes?
Me: Could you please come out? I would like to have a word with you.

She comes out.

Math teacher: What do you want?
Me: Mam, the math class is at 11:20 A.M?

Math teacher: Sorry, but the time table was revised today, I had started the math
class at 10:30


me: Okay, thank you.


I wait outside till she finishes her class, she finally comes out and sees me waiting. I take out a piece of paper on which I had written my timetable and told her that my math class was colliding with some other class since she had revised the time table.

She thinks, it is my teaching time table!

So, she decides to take me to the course co-ordinator to sort out the time table,
another faculty in charge of time table's. However, the co-ordiantor was not at desk.


Math teacher: Do this, talk with co-ordinator and call me.

She first gives me her mobile number and then her home phone number :)


Some how, on that day I am unable to meet the course co-ordinaror. In the mean time she meets the Head of Department (HOD) and tells him that there is this other teacher(me) with which her class is colliding.


The HOD is totally at loss in identifying the other math teacher and finally tells her not to alter her time table.


The next day...I was in another class when the math teacher rings me up on my mobile phone. Since I am in class I am unable to attend it. Once the class was over, I returned the call.


Math Teacher: I called you but you didn't pick up.
Me: I was in class. ( She thought I was teaching the class. )

Math teacher: Sir, I met the HOD, my schedule cannot be revised.

I wondered why she was calling me 'Sir'. Certainly, I have not been knighted. At this point,I realize that she had mistaken me for a math teacher!

Me: Mam, I am not a staff but a student.

She doesn't say another word for the next 5 seconds and then she hangs up.


I call her two minutes later.


me: I am a student, I would like to join the course you are teaching.
Math teacher: Alright, you can join.


Later she told that she was in a hurry that she misunderstood me for a math teacher.


A student mistaking a student for a teacher, quite possible. A teacher mistaking a student for a teacher :-))