Who do you think you are?

Who do you think you are?

4th grade, El Rincon Elementary.

Mornings started with all students lining up on the blacktop by class number, all of the classes would get roll called then go in.

One fine morning, this one kid wouldn't get in line and kept running around, joking, etc.
His name was Sam Krause.

His teacher came out and was not able to get him to stay put for some time, by the time she did, she was pretty pissed.

Now face to face, she yelled loudly at him "Who do you think you are?". All was quiet and all eyes on the scene.

With righteous indignation I had never seen before, he faced her down and loudly replied "I'M SAM KRAUSE"

The entire school erupted in laughter for the next five minutes. Teachers were even laughing.

From then on, I greeted him with 'Who do you think you are'. Other people did too, but no one held it out for as long as I did.

I saw him at some store at around age 25 and repeated the greeting, in the same tone and inflection used by the teacher 15+ years earlier.

He replied "yeah, real mature Ricky". We didn't do much catching up.

*bonus: a quote to go along with the story:

"If it is your duty to croak like the toad, then go ahead! And with all your might! Make them hear you!"~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine

(note: I had to include Sam's name or this story would not really work, normally I would avoid that, forgive me Sam)

Butt Biter 4x4

I was in 1st Grade. Ms. Nahoum was my teacher, it was my 2nd year of Spanish immersion, and school happened at El Rincon Elementary in Culver City.

I got dropped off for school early because my parents had to work, there were other kids in the same predicament so we would wait around outside the room. One morning there, I was looking in one direction and another kid came up behind me and bit me on the ass cheek! He was actually kneeling down and snuck up and bit me on the ass!

I was revulsed and said something like 'what are you doing?'. I was freaked out so after going off on him I just tried to stay away. He knew he fucked up and was apologizing and saying that his dad did that when they were playing; apparently it was new to him that this wasn't normal social behavior.

I told one of my friends about it, and once it was decided that I did no wrong, we proceeded to make fun of him.

At that time, there was a commercial for some toy 'off road' type cars that probably played a lot during Gi-Joe:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I4rgcXfUtc

http://www.ilovethe80s.com/toys_toys_roughriders.htm

The jingle in the commercial was "Rough Riders, 4 by 4, you can try to stop 'em.."

So he became "Butt Biter, 4 by 4..."

I can't say for sure which one of us came up with that one, but what a gem.

This caught on as the story got out, and lasted for some time.