the pom pom

chemistry 202. 11 o clock in the morning. for fifty minutes. a total yawn. except the one thing that makes me perky at such a time is the chemistry “shouter.” by “shouter” i mean the person who usually sits next to you and shouts out the answers whenever the professor asks a rhetorical question. usually they are way annoying. but not this one.

he always sits in the front row of the big lecture hall. he wears glasses that remind me of dumbledore’s “half-moon glasses” and has grown a full and voluminous beard. he’s not that old, more likely in his young twenties. and day after day he never fails to wear a baseball cap, beanie, or pom pom stocking cap. and by pom pom stocking cap i mean the type of stocking cap that is white and red knit, says i ♥ oregon, and on the very tip is attached a gargantuan red yarn pom pom. so he continues to claim the front center seat each class, and he also continues to shout. examples of this behavior is such:

doug would ask

does that make sense?

cs would reply with a laconic

for sure.

doug would ask

homework will be due monday. agreed?

cs would agree with a

yeah. mmmhmmm.

and each time he finished his shout, he would look behind his shoulder and peer at the rest of the class over his spectacles to see if anyone was laughing. i could tell he hoped so, because he himself would have a big silly grin on his face.