260. My Teacher, Mrs. R - Arden Brown
excerpted from Arden’s graphic novel
Mrs. R’s first name is Ann. She teaches fourth grade.
She also runs marathons. She has run Boston and New York City.
Mrs. R hates the Jersey Turnpike and the drivers on the Jersey Turnpike.
She also dislikes metal water bottles, and the words "snow" and "satisfaction."
She doesn't like children needing to use the restroom or her cat Otto tripping people.
There used to be a very large tree in Mrs. R's yard. It was cut down.
Mrs. R has two sons. They are both single and both live in Colorado.
W— is the younger one, B— is the older one. One of them (I don't know which) is a designer or sometimes an architect.
W— is bad at getting up in the morning. Mrs. R bought him an alarm. The alarm has a helicopter on the top. The helicopter flies off of the alarm in the morning. Then it beeps until you put it back on the alarm.
Mrs. R's mother is in her 90s and dating again. She once made a very spicy soup. She added three times the spice called for. Mrs. R and her family had to eat it because they were poor.
Mrs. R speaks with an American accent with some British thrown in.
She says VAH-ses instead of VAY-ses.
Mrs. R's husband is a surgeon. Mrs. R will faint if she sees blood. She makes him keep his papers out of the house.
Mrs. R is neat. Her husband is messy. He leaves things everywhere.
Mrs. R met her husband at a burger shop. She was an employee. He was a customer. Mrs. R loves burgers.
Otto once tripped Mrs. R's husband at the bottom of the stairs. Otto is a bad kitty.
Mrs. R says she is a rule follower, but that she did some bad things in college. Her worst was driving a car without a seatbelt. The car didn't have seatbelts.
- Arden Brown
