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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DarrenGMiller" data-source="post: 1971421" data-attributes="member: 23174">Thanks Nightcloak.  Two months ago, I wouldn't have posted what I did.  I would have been the one asking for the advice (and often was).   I call it "breaking the conestoga wagon." You see, I am a teacher.  During my first year of teaching, I knew an eighth grade social studies teacher with a last period class that gave meaning to the word incorrigible.  He had, on his desk, a wooden conestoga wagon.  It was the kind that was made of hundreds of tiny balsa wood pieces and took forever to build.  When asked, he would tell how a student in one of his classes several years earlier had painstakingly constructed it for him and given it to him as a gift before moving on to the high school. When his class got TOTALLY out of control one day, in a desperate attempt to regain control and re-establish some semblance of order, he hefted the fragile wooden model in the air and smashed it on the floor.  Tiny wooden splinters went everywhere and the crash could be heard all over that part of the school. The next day, my students told me of the incident (some of them had been present) and I took it upon myself to visit my co-worker and share my consolation over the loss of his treasured desk-piece.  I will never forget what happened next.  He told me, "Sometimes you have to break the conestoga wagon."  With that, he unlocked a cabinet in his storage closet and opened a drawer for me to peek inside.  What I saw shocked me.  There were about four more identical wagons in the drawer. DM</blockquote>

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