  Substitute Teaching Diaries cont... Foods Class Me: "Does everyone have their pumpkins? Today we will be carving Jack-O-Lanterns" Everyone starts plopping their pumpkins on the counter and searching for knives. Two boys dissappear and return grunting and carrying a crate holding the largest pumpkin I've ever seen (other than at the county fair).
Apparently they had jacked it from the grocery store right before the bell rang. As a substitute teacher you have to be flexible. You just never know when you'll end up on a chair ramming a butcher knife into a 140 pound pumpkin... My pumps will forever stick to the floor... Funny Question of the Day A kid is holding his pumpkin delicately in one hand, a safety knife in other hand, proceeding to carve a ghoulish-faced jack-o-lantern. He stops, his brow furrowed, looks up at the class and inquires, "How do I make a scary nose?
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