> > > > How about the fear of having someone sneaking up behind you while at a urinal? That's one I thought up one day for some reason.
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> > > Hey! I just thought of that a few days ago too! That's really scary because you cant see behind you.
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> > > > --Pliff"thinks in irregular quantities"ilif
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> > Can't see behind you? I can. It's not unusual for teachers to have eyes in the back of their head. But you knew that.
> > Howard
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> My math and science teacher in sixth and seventh grade had, and frequently demonstrated, the ability to see what was going on behind him. He said that on weekends he would go to the mall and practice watching things behind him in the reflection of his glasses (while he was still wearing them). I didn't know whether to believe him or not until I got glasses and found that they don't make reflections on the eyeball side.
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> -eric "Still, he was cool" sleator
> Sun 31 Dec A.D. 2000

When I was teaching 8th grade science, I had some display cabinets at one end of the room. While writing on the chalk board, I could watch what the kids were doing by looking at their reflection in the glass doors of the cabinets. Some years it took months for them to figure out how I did it.
Howard