The yankee baseball students

So in my last class today, a yankee baseball student was asked the followed question: "How do you spell the word 'straight'?"

Since, as most of my baseball players are, he was not the brightest star in the sky, he relies on the student, his friend (and not a baseball player) behind him to whisper him the answers so that the teacher doesn't hear, thinks the baseball player knows what's going on, and doesn't ask him any more questions.

Unfortunately though, this time around the student behind him misheard the question and thought the teacher had asked to spell the word "street," so he whispers s-t-r-e-e-t. The baseball player dutifully repeats each letter.

The teacher looks at him, shaking her head. "That's wrong, I asked you to spell straight, not street!" chuckling even. The baseball player annoyed that he made himself look bad (although everyone in class knows about this whispering-deal) turns around and smacks his friend behind him on the head reprimanding him in Japanese for spelling to him the wrong word.

Oops, he blew his own cover. I knew what was going on, but was having more fun just watching it knowing he was going to be wrong. Much of the class burst out in laugher, and the next time he was called on, his friend behind him had to stand while he was answering the question so his mouth was readily visible.