An ode to the Greyling

As a brave soldier he rides (marches) off to class with is brain as his trusty steed. With beady eyes and Harry Potter specs he surveys his prey...Behold a group of young and impressionable students. The Greyling then descends the echelons of his dusty statistical mind to converse with the chosen few who dared to become psychologists.He believes today to be a fun-filled adventure of graphs, numbers and inferences or just another opportunity to show of his stick men evolutionary shirts. Yet what does he find instead? Neither blackboard to squiggle on nor any projector to scribble on.

-What to do? He ponders and the eager-eyed students say to themselves “Are you serious, you honestly booked a venue without a board to write on?”

He then stares at his phone and ponders ‘Can I perhaps bbm the lecture, ah no I can’t do graphs on that now can I?’

He then stares at the wall and thinks ‘Maybe I could write on that. Ah no, I have no marker.’

He then looks at his shoes and remembers ‘Hey I bought these in my first year in Varsity way back in the early 90’s’

He then frowns at the wall and wonders ‘If I stare hard enough a black board will appear. Ah no. Oh wait there’s an overhead projector.’ Unfortunately for him the projector slide is way up in the heavens of the lecture venue. ‘Maybe I should admit I should have check out this place before booking? Uhm no, they can find out that I have no logical mind.’

He then stares at his phone again.....

I look on and stare at my friend beside me a think...maybe the Greyling will let us go, but alas no such luck. Instead he decides to use a laptop acquired from a diligent student in the front row, plugs it in and proceed to use the overhead regardless of the white slide. Seems he got what he wanted all along, to draw on the wall! Extremely chuffed with himself he crack a joke

“I don’t want to strain my voice over you and the Boeing engine hum of the aircon, it will ruin my mood the whole day and I am going home to set your test.”

-Ah Statistics is the most exciting part of my day as you can tell-