school theater + working w kids is always a fun mix of dialogue, enjoy some of my favorite mix ups
that time i told a kid to 'strike your bedroom' (clean, i meant clean.) and he told me in a very serious voice that 'hitting is bad. don't do it.'
one time i was showing middle schoolers around the theater and they wouldn't stfu (some were my old campers) and i just yelled, very loudly: ‘what sound do you make with a closed mouth kiddos?’ - my 3 old campers then YELLED 'NOTHING!’ before closing their mouths and making a yell sound before being quiet, and i was mortified.
i had two people asking me how to do 2 separate things something involving rewording a thing and setting up cues on the board and i told them to settle it with rock paper scissors before remembering that i actually had to help them. that they weren’t arguing and were actually just both confused. fml
a kid once told me she'd be done with snack in 10 minutes and i responded with 'thank you 10' and now this kid says that EVERY SINGLE TIME i give her an amount of time. apparently she’s been doing it to her parents as well 🤦
and my personal favorite mix up: i use 'h-o-t-t-o-g-o'/‘you can take me hot to go!' as a call and response with my 5 year olds (they LOVE it). i will sometimes yell that to a big room of adult sized people that i need to be quiet. (they will respond and then be quiet + confused, it's hilarious) on the other hand, i have accidentally yelled 'yo! please just shut it!!' to 15 small children. i felt *horrible* and have only done it once to this day but it haunts me
