Yes, I did say that. Just a moment ago, in fact.

SUPER DUPER apologies for not updating in almost a month. Been swamped with IAs and xperis and such. Anyway, on to the post:

Since Bro is a wrestler and I need CAS hours, I tutor the wrestling team for an hour after school two days a week. Not many of the wrestlers are IB kids, and in talking with them, I’ve discovered that IB kids and wrestlers speak completely different languages. I’m constantly expecting to get an answer characteristic of my IB friends only to be shocked when I am met with a completely different response.

Me: This is okay, but shouldn’t it be longer?
IB Kid: Yeah, this is just a rough draft. Do you think I should go into more detail in the second paragraph?
Wrestler: THAT’S WHAT SHE SAID

Me: I think you have your periods in the wrong places. I marked them in red.
IB Kid: Thanks!

Wrestler: *hysterical laughter*

Me: If you would just shut your mouth for a minute please!
IB Kid: You’re constructing a straw man fallacy; I’m just pointing that out!
Wrestler: THAT’S WHAT SHE SAID

Me: A word that rhymes with “work”? How about “shirk”?
IB Kid: Hmm, let’s fit that into my iambic pentameter.
Wrestler 1: What does that mean?
Wrestler 2: You know, like “shirk chicken”.

Me: See, that curvy part doesn’t come up high enough.
IB Kid: Wait, how again do you tell if it’s a sine or a cosine graph?
Wrestler: THAT’S WHAT SHE SAID

Me: That line has too many syllables.
IB Kid: Oh, yeah. Oops.
Wrestler: THAT’S WHAT SHE SAID
Me: that doesn’t even make any sense.
Wrestler: THAT’S WHAT SHE SAID

Me: Okay, I’m leaving now.
Wrestler: THAT’S WHAT SHE SAID

Me: Are you surprised?

And then there’s the infamous rubber-band ball dialogue. I realize that my questions seem completely inane, but keep this in mind: I’m used to IB kids, who have conversations like this:

Me: What’s that?
Roi: It’s a rubber-band ball that I made since I was TAing for LAT for CAS because I don’t have a seventh hour, and she didn’t have grading for me to do because her freshmen are all doing presentations, and she had this box of rubber-bands because she bought them for her freshman to do a project that she decided not to have them do because their presentations are taking too long, so I made the rubber-band ball, see how high it bounces?

So, I was a little dumbstruck at Wrestler’s answers and trying to prompt him into my type of conversation during this exchange:

Me: What’s that?
Wrestler: A rubber-band ball.
Me: Where’d you get it?
Wrestler: I made it.
Me: Out of what?
Wrestler: .............rubber bands.
Me: Where’d you get them?
Wrestler: .....A box of rubber bands.
Me: ...Oh.

Which, of course, led to the surrounding wrestlers laughing at me, which led to the teacher supervisor asking what was going on, which led to me saying this:
“I was just asking Wrestler about his ball.”

Which, of course, led to a collective THAT’S WHAT SHE SAID!!!