THE infamous Playboy Centerfold
She's a Keeper!
My mother was adored by her students. She taught for so long and with such loving enthusiasm and devotion to her classes, that the students started calling her "MOTHER" because she had mothered as many as she could. They even inserted her name in the school fight song, which they kept singing even after she retired.
Some member of the Senior Class of 1969, out of loving respect, decided to play a little hoax. Mother used those geography maps that scrolled up and down. She used them almost daily in her American and world government discussions. This class had some pranksters who thought it would be funny to pull one over her. While she was on hall duty, a couple of boys from 5th period taped a Playboy centerfold onto one of those world maps and then rolled it back up into its cover. They planned to ask a question in class that involved having her pull down THAT PARTICULAR MAP to answer the question they posed.
What they hadn't counted on was 3rd period. Someone in 3rd period innocently asked a question that caused my mother to pull down the map with the nude model plastered in the middle of Africa. Since she stood in front of the map while pulling it down, no one expected the ruse and the students didn't see it. She quickly tore the picture off without the rest of the class knowing the difference.
So, there was no way that the prank had spread around the school. Fourth period passed. But then, 5th period showed up and those funny guys, who just KNEW they were going to pull-one-over on my mother, asked some question that was supposed to bring down the map with the centerfold front and center. Of course, it actually backfired on them, because without a doubt, they were the perpetrators that placed the centerfold there in the first place.
Because it wasn't meant maliciously, I don't think those guys who were caught in the act got into too much trouble.
My mother was adored by her students. She taught for so long and with such loving enthusiasm and devotion to her classes, that the students started calling her "MOTHER" because she had mothered as many as she could. They even inserted her name in the school fight song, which they kept singing even after she retired.
Some member of the Senior Class of 1969, out of loving respect, decided to play a little hoax. Mother used those geography maps that scrolled up and down. She used them almost daily in her American and world government discussions. This class had some pranksters who thought it would be funny to pull one over her. While she was on hall duty, a couple of boys from 5th period taped a Playboy centerfold onto one of those world maps and then rolled it back up into its cover. They planned to ask a question in class that involved having her pull down THAT PARTICULAR MAP to answer the question they posed.
What they hadn't counted on was 3rd period. Someone in 3rd period innocently asked a question that caused my mother to pull down the map with the nude model plastered in the middle of Africa. Since she stood in front of the map while pulling it down, no one expected the ruse and the students didn't see it. She quickly tore the picture off without the rest of the class knowing the difference.
So, there was no way that the prank had spread around the school. Fourth period passed. But then, 5th period showed up and those funny guys, who just KNEW they were going to pull-one-over on my mother, asked some question that was supposed to bring down the map with the centerfold front and center. Of course, it actually backfired on them, because without a doubt, they were the perpetrators that placed the centerfold there in the first place.
Because it wasn't meant maliciously, I don't think those guys who were caught in the act got into too much trouble.
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