Am I A Stingy-gut?

[Bijou]

My mom went back to college in her mid-thirties. In one class, she always had someone asking her for a pencil/pen/notebook paper. For a while she kept some cheapo pens and a legal pad in her bag for just these cases, until the instructor pulled her aside and let her know that even though itwas great that she was helping out the other, younger, students- a full TEN PERCENT of their grade depended on coming prepared to class. This was  a business class, and being unprepared for a business meeting/interview/job hurt you in the real world, the instructor was trying to show that. She wanted the students to have to go to her if they were unprepared, so she would know. Granted, if it were a case of pens/pencils breaking, she would not count it against you.

I would ask the instructor of your art class if it is OK to lend someone a supply, if you plan on doing it any more, or if being unprepared could hurt their grade.

Gosh, I hadn't thought about that part of it.  Good point.

[bluhairfreak]

If it was just the first class I may cut the students some slack.  My campus bookstore doesn't have any good art supplies and a good art supply store is at least 15 minutes away in confusing downtown traffic and cheap #2 pencils and printer paper aren't going to work well in an art class.   Add in they may also have books they have to get they could need sometime before getting the things they need.   I had to wait a week to get some supplies I wanted for my art classes because I lost my wallet.  Fortunately I already had some things, but that first day of sketching was tight as I had limited paper and we were making a lot of sketches.

[Sirius]

New marks?  In additons to your own?  That is unbelievable!  You're lucky to be here if you were a cord chewer! I remember a puppy of ours chewing on the sewing machine cord.  I can't remember if she got zapped or what, but that seems the only time she ever did it, so maybe she learned a lesson.

One of our Guide Dog puppies chewed the cord off my electric typewriter.  Strangely enough, getting it repaired was tax-deductable because the Guide Dog puppy had done it, and anything we spent because of something a Guide Dog puppy had done was considered a charitable donation.  That meant that we got to deduct the cost of the drywall and tile when one of our puppies turned out to be a chewer.