Ms. B: These kids you know they love to play with my paperclips--always bending them out of shape and pulling them apart.

Me: Either that or they hook them together, right?

Ms B.: That's right. And when I go for a paperclip when I'm in a rush I wind up pulling out a whole bunch of them and it's like oh my god...these kids can't keep their hands still you know they have to be playing with something.

Dr. M: Well better they play with paperclips than some other things that they could be playing with.

Ms. B, Dr. M and I start laughing. SD Girl kind of looks at us and Cal Girl is eating.

Ms B.: Oh yes there was this one male teacher you know...he was teaching freshman at the time. So these ninth graders...he told me that he would have to take all the boys out of the classroom at least once a day to tell them you don't do stuff like that in class!

Cal Girl: Wait...what are we talking about again...?