Lock And Key
“But I was pretty sure Gervais Miller was the most annoying person on the planet.First, there was the voice. Flat and nasal with no inflection, it came from the backseat, offering up pronouncements and observations. “Your hair’s matted in the back,” he’d tell me, when I hadn’t had adequate time with the blow-dryer. Or when I pulled a shirt last-minute from the laundry: “You stink like dryer sheets.” Attempts to ignore him by pretending to study only resulted in a running commentary on my academi...c prowess, or lack thereof. “Intro to Calculus? What are you, stupid?” or “Is that a B on that paper?” And so on.I wanted to punch him. Daily. But of course I couldn’t, for two reasons. First, he was just a kid. Second, between his braces and his headgear, there was really no way to get at him and really make an impact. (The fact that I’d actually thought about it enough to draw this conclusion probably should have worried me. It did not.)When it all got to be too much, I’d just turn around and shoot him the evil eye, which usually did the trick.MoreLess
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