I love being a leader sometimes. To show people the light and stuff. When I got to my linguistics course, about fifteen minutes early, I saw a lot of people inside and assumed it was another class finishing up, as they run ten minutes apart. I didn’t want to walk into the end of a class and wait for the next one, and there were a few other people outside as well, so we all waited around a bit.

More people showed up, and seeing other people waiting outside, they assumed the same thing as we had and sat around. I realized before very long that it had to be people who’d arrived early for linguistics in there, but out of complacency I waited anyway. A minute or two before class would normally start, I picked up my stuff and walked in the door. One look at the screens up front was all I needed: they simply said “Introduction to Linguistics.”

All I had to do was lean out the door and soberly say “hey guys class is about to start so we should probably make our way in.” It was all I could do to suppress a big, idiotic grin.