We had a lot of ' unique ' teachers . The alcoholic business teacher who would go to the pub down the road during lunch and come to class drunk . He ' d spend most of the class looking for his glasses which were on his head . My art teacher used to clip his toenails during class . My geography teacher would throw the duster at you for no reason . He also hid in the large cupboards at the back of the room if he didn ' t feel like teaching a particular class . He reeked of smoke abs would sometimes smoke out the classroom window . My French teacher was partially deaf . My Irish teacher was a complete witch of a woman . We always knew when she had her period cos she would wear trousers instead of her usual skirts . She screamed at me for yawning on my first day . I didn ' t yawn in her class for the rest of the time i had her . Our guidance counsellor was morbidly obese . Probably the fattest person I had ever seen at the point . One of the teachers was a nun . She had one leg shorter than the other so she wore one big platform shoe . She was a psycho . She was a tiny woman but I saw her haul big chaps outta the room by the scruff of the neck . Our history teacher was an alco too and I think he suffered from delusions . He claimed to be at many historic occasions like when JFK got shot , he would talk about how his mother was dead but the following day she was making him sandwiches , he ' d have many brothers one day , the next he ' d be an only child . He broke down in tears one say during class . That was awkward . Another one our religion teacher told us that the AIDS virus could get through condoms so we shouldn ' t use them .