We tend to think teachers stay in the classroom 24/7, but the reality is, they're normal human beings just like you and me. These students share their most awkward encounters with teachers outside of the classroom.
An Awkward Encounter
I saw my married middle school science teacher at as gay bar with a guy who certainly wasn’t his wife. Source
Isn’t It Ironic? Don’t Ya Think?
My sister was in a fender bender right after getting her license. The guy who rear ended her was her driving teacher. Source
It’s A Kegger
I was baby sitting for one of the high school teachers probably when I was in 10th or 11th grade. Him and his wife get home and I call my dad to come pick me up and I was just hanging out in the kitchen waiting for him, chatting with the wife about the kids. Then all these cars start pulling up and people flood into the house with cases of beer, bottles of booze. It was all teachers from the high school that taught me or we’re currently teaching me. They were all so drunk and would like sober up when they saw me and try to make awkward conversation for a few minutes. Apparently the teacher I was babysitting for offered up his house for the after party of whatever they did that night.
I think it was more awkward for them than it was for me. I especially remember my French teacher who was such a buttoned up and serious middle aged lady literally stumbling into the house giggling, hair all a mess, plastered. She started telling me how well I did on a presentation I had earlier that week and how happy I’d be when I got my grade back. The thing that got me the most was when my dad finally got there and I’m walking to the car a few of them were in the garage smoking cigs and tried to hide them when I walked by. Source
Our Little Secret
My mother once told me the story of how, when she was in high school in England in the 1970s, she saw her teacher in a pub toilet, drunk, slumped against the wall. My mother was around 15 at the time and shouldn’t have been drinking in a pub on a Saturday night. The teacher recognised her and drunkenly said “I won’t say anything if you don’t..” Source
Unseen Territory
Previous highschool teacher, embarrassed and drunk when his wife was throwing up all over me as I was forcibly removing her from the bar I worked at for dancing naked on a table. Source
I Remember You!
Not a teacher anymore but something similar: a few years ago I’m at home with my fiance and a buddy his me up from a bar. Says he’s chatting up a girl but his wingman disappeared, her friend was pushing her to leave and could I please please please come back him up. It was early so I’m like “wth sure.” Tell my girl, hit an ATM, and head over. Find my buddy who introduces me to the friend, I buy a round, and the girl he’s interested get back from the bathroom… The girl who I taught when she was 12.
For the record, she was 21 at the time this s happened, my buddy and I were 33. Source
A Student’s Worst Nightmare
When I was in 4th grade, after my parents divorced, my Aunt came to live with us for awhile. One night I was watching tv and procrastinating doing my homework. There was a knock at the door and it was my teacher Mr L_. I was so shocked that I blurted out “I’m just about to start my homework, I swear!” He laughed and said “No, MachinePress, we’re hear for your Aunt. Is she ready?” That’s when I noticed he was with his wife and some man who was to be my Aunt’s date for the evening. The four of them were going to a concert or something. I felt pretty stupid about it. Especially because he liked to bring it later and laugh about the idea that he would come by students houses and check on their homework progress. Source
Keeping It Hush Hush
17, senior year. Snuck into a 21 and up bar with some friends that were not from my school. Get to bar and wait to order drink, bartender is current Art Teacher. Something she likes to do on weekends I assumed. We stare at each other for 2 seconds then she asks what’ll it be for all of us. Order gin and tonic, she serves me drink, and we go about our night. School was the same, so 10/10 would drink with art teacher again. Gin and tonic was good too. Source
Pure Scandal
Saw my English teacher shoplifting underwear from Primark. Source
Just Living The Dream
When I was in Grade 10, I had a crush on my English teacher, whose support incidentally inspired me to write.
My friend’s sister was a horseback rider and we went to the stable one day to pick her up. As we were walking through, we saw my teacher, who was washing the underside of her horse. Its horse bits were fully engorged.
She saw me, smiled widely, and said hello. I stuttered hello back.
I’m still not sure how to mentally categorize that event, and sometimes wonder if it was just a dream. Source
Rumor Confirmed
When I was in high school, I ran into my middle school history teacher at the movies. He was with his boyfriend, who happened to be my high school art teacher. It had long been rumored that they were gay/together and this confirmed it. They tried to act as if they had simply bumped into one another there. Super awkward. Source
Fake It ‘Til You Make It
It’s never awkward for me. But one of my favorite times it was awkward for them was at a local music festival. This was one of those 3-day-weekend things where everyone is enjoying some sort of mind-altering experience or another.
I ran into a group of students who were just blazed (tripping on something) – I mean barely functional. I let them try to play it off for a while before I showed mercy and moved on. They tried so hard to seem sober. Freaking hilarious. Source
Oh, Hey There Neighbor
I smoke a lot in the treehouse at my parents house. One summer after college I looked out the door as I was taking a fat bong rip and made eye-contact with my old high school English teacher walking her dog.
Gave her a casual head-nod and slowly closed the door. Source
Teacher By Day, Freak By Night
This is going back almost 10 years. When I was a sophomore I ran into my math teacher at a spencers, it was awkward because she had a dildo that had to have been almost 2 foot, she was a tiny lady, I felt bad for her vagina. Source
An Enlightened Experience
Bumped into an old teacher at the urinal while being completely intoxicated at a bar. Opened up to him about how much his class meant to me. The class was gym. Source