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Maureen Grigs's avatar

I teach water aerobics 3 days a week. 7pm on Monday night, 12 noon on Tuesday and 8 am on Wednesday. I am not a morning person. Other variables aside, like the 7 pm class has younger participants that have attended work all day and may be tired, 12 nooners are the ones who refuse to be there for 8 and think 7pm is too late and affects dinnertime, the 8 am people are more responsive. I ask myself why. I think a lot if it has to do with the fact that I may try harder to engage the 8am group because I know that it’s not the best time for me....I add more commentary, silly jokes, change up in routine. Thanks for making me think about this. I may have to add some standup to my other classes!

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Ninah's avatar

I had an embarrassing moment 🤦‍♀️ which involves just this. I was a Junior transfer student at a university. I had to go to orientation speeches @ 3 pm the first day of classes (requirement). One speaker was SO boring that I fell asleep. He paused in his speech, and I suddenly woke up thinking he was finished and started clapping. Oops! Nope, it was just a pause. The whole assembly broke out laughing. This poor speaker said, “well, I’ll take that as a cue, enjoy the rest of the day.”

I felt so stupid, but a number of students gave me a pat in the back as we exited the building, saying I saved their day. That was the last year those speeches were given.

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