Sunday, October 13, 2013

Lord of the Kiln

           Bill the Smog Guru was a teacher's assistant for a ceramics class in the early seventies. Most of the students in the class were women who wore blouses that looked like smocks, with not a bra in sight.
           Bill convinced the professor to reconfigure the class room so that the pottery wheels were at opposite sides of each other. That way he could wheel a chair down the center aisle and assist the students as needed. But it was just a ploy to look down the ladies' blouses one after another.
           As a teacher's assistant Bill wielded a considerable amount of power. It was his job to place the pottery into the kiln. All the students wanted their work to be placed in the best spot possible so it wouldn't crack. If you were nice to Bill you'd get a good spot. The women in the class began asking Bill out to dinner. In exchange for a good spot in the kiln, Bill would get a night out with a lovely woman, a free meal, and seven beers. 

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