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Posted by Rod in Smiths Falls, ON, on June 13, 2005 at 16:32:23 from (209.71.222.98):
In Reply to: What would you have done posted by 37 chief on June 12, 2005 at 20:25:24:
I'd just write the encounter off to the rule of 30* and get on with mowing the weeds. I developed the rule of 30 over a long career in education in an attempt to explain the otherwise unexplainable. For example, if you put thirty well-prepared, well-motivated students into an examination room, one kid will find a way to screw up the paper in a manner no one had dreamed possible. Take the case of the girl who walked in, tripped over her feet, landed flat on her face and screamed, "Don't touch me! Don't touch me!" until she got control of her embarrassment. With her peers thoroughly psyched out, she then got up and wrote the best paper of her life. Or the girl who wrote for two hours, then sat for the final hour, only to approach me after the papers were collected to tell me that she had somehow forgotten to write the second half of the exam. Rule of 30 says you set her down and let her write it. Or the tearful rookie teacher who encountered a set of parents who were unaccountably cruel to her. I told her that regardless of how good or bad a job you do, one set of parents in thirty will be awful. It's just the rule of 30. So look at the mowing job this way: you might as well keep the relationship with the realtor sweet, for you are in for 29 good ones after this jerk.
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