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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Droberts" data-source="post: 2016091" data-attributes="member: 13839">OSU-Tulsa, data communications class - teacher was an old navy retired comm tech & i liked his teaching style & general enthusiasm toward data comm(im a network engineer). this professor really enjoyed teaching and it showed in his persona. this class was a joint stillwater/tulsa class via teleconference with the actual professor alternating classrooms while the other class watches on tv. she sat right in front of me in this class. well, one day the professor is at the stillwater classroom and we're participating via teleconference. we have a 10min break, come back & resume. the professor forgets to un-mute his side of the audio link... as the students in the class realize this the prick next to my now wife says something like "hey nobody tell him it'll be hilarious." this quickly irritated me and i chimed in - "you know what that'll do? that'll make mr. xx(i forget his name) pretty sad. can you imagine what it would be like to find out an entire class didn't let you know you were muted?" it was a pretty righteous verbal smack down & the whole class was somewhat stunned at my sticking up for a professor.the guy nearly sank into his seat up to his shoulders and looked like a scolded puppy. immediately afterwards some girl down the row hit her intercom button & let him know he was muted. sooo the end of class rolls around and i pack my stuff up, look up from my book bag and my now wife was standing there with her arms crossed waiting for me to notice her & just went.. "whats your name"  apparently some people appreciate folks that aren't too timid to lay the verbal smack down on some deserving little turd. we were married about 11 months later. been married 7 years now with a lil 7 month old girl to show for it. a fantastic woman.</blockquote>

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