Limit [100 words]

Posted on February 2, 2023 | 25 Comments
Purple sky man building

He had reached his limit, and beyond, and was ready to end it all for good, since the toll of working with utter soulless monsters had extracted the last penny of his tolerance.

But if the universe sent him a sign, any kind of sign, then maybe, possibly he could summon up a speck of fortitude and go back–right then, a fuzzy bee landed on his nose and flew away.

Assuming the bee was a sign, he turned around, walked down the roof access stairs, trudged across the hall to the classroom, and resumed teaching math to high schoolers.

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Written for Sonya’s Three Line Tales.

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25 responses to “Limit [100 words]”

  1. newepicauthor | February 2, 2023 at 6:08 pm |

    I bet if he was a middle school teacher, nothing would have stopped him from jumping.

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  2. Sadje | February 2, 2023 at 6:11 pm |

    Haha! Poor soul.

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  3. Hammad Rais | February 2, 2023 at 6:28 pm |

    And that bee was the reason behind his successful launch of Mathematical Bee competition 🐝 🙂

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  4. Gr8BigFun | February 2, 2023 at 6:29 pm |

    Lol, somewhere this is probably a true story.

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  5. Gr8BigFun | February 2, 2023 at 6:54 pm |

    That make you a biographer for half the high-school teachers in America!

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  6. robertawrites235681907 | February 2, 2023 at 9:09 pm |

    I can imagine that teaching high schoolers would be just like this from time to time.

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  7. cognacproject | February 2, 2023 at 11:28 pm |

    I feel bad for laughing at his misery, but you got me with that twist at the end 🙂

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  8. Belladonna | February 3, 2023 at 7:42 am |

    Sounds about right! LOLOLOL

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  9. 100 Country Trek | February 3, 2023 at 11:59 am |

    Wow! He is standing on the roof.

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  10. Baydreamer - Lauren Scott | February 3, 2023 at 5:09 pm |

    Well written, and it just goes to show that signs come in all forms. 💞

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  11. Dawn Pisturino | February 4, 2023 at 6:14 am |

    OMG! I remember how awful our class was to the algebra teacher! And he was very patient and kind. It’s something I still feel bad about. But we weren’t interested in learning algebra, we were being forced to learn it!

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  12. Keera Ann Fox | February 6, 2023 at 3:07 am |

    🤣🤣 I nearly had* a math teacher who liked telling us about his travel agency and his trips. Straight A students got Cs, C students flunked in his class, because he did such a bad job of actual teaching. Some teachers should quit.

    *) I chose the other math class/teacher (no one flunked). I avoided travel agent guy because I’d had him in another subject, one I got a D in. I was an honor student…

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