While he was waiting to talk to another teacher about a new student, I roped a colleague into helping me with the mundane task of recording locker combos on index cards for my incoming homeroom. We sat companionably as he called out the lock number, I read the combination aloud from a spreadsheet and transferred it to a card, and then he slid the card onto the lock.
"8-26-16," I said, writing it down. "Wait. Isn't your birthday coming?" I interrupted myself.
"Yeah it's Saturday," he answered. "Good memory."
"It was that combination," I told him. "8-26."
"Whoa!" he shook his head. "I feel like I just got a glimpse inside your brain. Does it really work that way?"
"Pretty much," I laughed, going on to the next combination.
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