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So I Should Be Fine

Student #1: Can you drink rubbing alcohol?
Teacher: No. If you do, you will die.
Student #2: Unless you’re Irish.

–Classroom, Edward R. Murrow Highschool, Brooklyn

Overheard by: anonymous

  • Posted on April 28, 2008
  • Brooklyn, Classroom, Death, Default, Drinking & Drunk People, Global Geography, Questions, School, Science, Students, Teachers/Professors
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