Just when you think you have heard everything...

It has been a slow substitute season this year, as teachers are afraid to lose their jobs if they take too much time off, so I have been quiet.
Fortunately, I ran into a teacher I had gone to school with a few years back, and he asked me to sub for him the following day. Turns out all of the teachers of that grade were going to meet to plan curriculum that day, so there were subs in all four portable classrooms. The class was fabulous, one of my favorite grades, and they were a lot of fun to teach.
Well, at lunch, the teachers and the subs were gathered in the staff room, gobbling down food and comparing notes on the kids. Then one of the teachers walks in and asks if we had heard what had happened in her classroom that morning - the sub was absent from the room. No, we replied, we hadn't heard, but we were eager to find out what she had to share.
Turns out one of the students in the class had brought something from home that day. Now, keep in mind that kids bring in all sorts of things from home every day. As a teacher, you see all kinds of objects: pictures, stuffed animals, toys... but never have I seen a student bring in a vibrator.
Yep, that's right, that's what this student had evidently brought to school that day. Not a personal massager, but an out and out vibrator.
After we all chuckled, I thanked my lucky stars that it hadn't been in my classroom. The student was asked to go to the office with the offending object, and from what I understood, the receptionist had to call home. Boy, there's a call you wouldn't want to answer!
So the lesson here is, if you are a parent, be sure to review the things your child wants to take to school to share. And if you are a teacher, make sure you take a look before the student pulls their "sharing" out of their backpack. You never know what might be lurking...