During my usual pre-exam spiel today:
Me: No notes, no cellphones, no internet… no FaceTime-ing your friends across the room during the test…
Kid: Can we use an Apple Watch?
Me: Mmmm… if you get the gold one, I’ll think about it.
They laughed.1
They knew I was joking.
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I hope they knew I was joking…
- In case you hadn’t heard, them things are kinda expensive. [↩]