Thursday, March 18, 2010

Informal Holiday Drunk Driving Survey (in the classroom)

Me: Tell me what you already know about St. Patrick's Day.

Student: St. Patrick's Day is the holiday with the most drunk driving.

Me: Well you know St. Patrick's Day is not actually a holiday in the United States. We celebrate St. Patrick's Day here, but it is not considered a holiday. What do you think might be the holiday with the most incidents of drunk driving?

Random student answers: "New Year's!" "Christmas!" "Easter!", etc.

One student in particular: Saturday!

Me: Which Saturday?

One student in particular: All of them.

Me: Well you know Saturday isn't actually a holiday, it's just a day of the week.

One student in particular: Well, Russian New Year then.

1 comment:

Jenna said...

Russian New Year-I think that may actually be the right answer