The Life of Protest Aftertaste Edition 5

Victor Lei
Danny is punished by Miss Hoo on the first school day as a 7th grade student, but more troubles to come. Indeed, Danny is not only facing a single trouble, but multiple troubles in Charles Middle School. He faces trouble with one of the school's "strangest" teachers today, who is that teacher?

That teacher is called Mr. Yo, he is a P.E. teacher, but he is very powerful. He is always mad, loves to scold students, sometimes even beats them; not only students, he also scolds his colleagues and even his boss - the principal! Besides scolding people madly, he also loves to turn on the microphone, cranks it up to the highest volume, and speaks very loudly; the noise even can be heard from couple hundred feet from school! Because of those "strange" behaviors of Mr. Yo, he is named one of the "strangest" teachers of staffs.

Danny's class has a P.E. class this morning, but their P.E. teacher is sick, so Mr. Yo serves as a substitute teacher. Mr. Yo yells madly to order every student line up, and then he orders the students doing warm-up exercises. About 10 minutes after, Mr. Yo yells, "We're going to do activities on the pads!" Then he orders two students to take out the blue pads, which are totally 4 pads, 2 for the boys and 2 for the girls. All students are required to do at least three different activities on the pads; most students can do all of them, except...

It's show time for Mr. Danny Lui! Everyone is laughing, why? Because he walks like a crab while Mr. Yo orders to walk like an elephant! Mr. Yo is very angry, and yells out "Stop!" "Stop Stop Stop!" Danny stops at middle of the blue pads. Mr. Yo then tries to teach Danny the correct way to do "elephant walking", but Danny seems not understanding, and still walks incorrectly.

Mr. Yo is very furious now, he yells "Not like this! Like this!" "I asked him to do like this; he's still doing like that! What the hell?!" "I told you many times! Not like this! Like this!" Danny's still doing the incorrect way, then Mr. Yo yells madly to Danny's ears, "Is your brain dead?! I think so! Because you don't know what you're doing! Your brain has been died!!!" Danny is very upset when he heard Mr. Yo scolds him as a "brain dead", he whispers continuously, no one can understand what he is saying. In just a split second, Mr. Yo holds his hands, and beats Danny very hardly. "Slap, slap, slap, slap, slap..." "Don't know any sports activity, how come you can be our school's student?!" "You stupid bastard! You shouldn't be in our school!!!" "Every student knows how to do activities on the pads, only you don't know, you better go to hell!!!" Mr. Yo scolds as he beats Danny, Danny doesn't say anything, and he just whispers softly "I'll remember this! I'll remember this!" "Mr. Yo, you treat me like this today, you may get a bad retribution in the future! God will punish you!"

Obviously, Danny is not the first student that is beaten by Mr. Yo, there are number of students were also beaten by Mr. Yo for the past 20 years, the number of students who were scolded by Mr. Yo? That's a huge number! Why he is never arrested and fired even though he has scolded and beaten a huge number of students for 20 years? Yes, you're absolutely correct! Because he has been teaching in that school for more than 20 years, longer than every teachers, but a little bit shorter than the school's principal. He is the school's most experienced teacher, so no one dares to complain him, even the principal doesn't dare to fire him! Mr. Yo has already become the de facto principal of Charles Middle School. The "de jure" principal wants the power back, but it seems to be very difficult...

Danny has been facing lots of troubles since he enrolled to Charles Middle School, but we are going to warn you that the things will be more stunning, more unbelievable, and most importantly, those cost Danny a lot...

Danny is now a 7th grader, but his life is not that well. On the first day of school, he was punished by his new homeroom teacher, and then few months later, he was beaten by the mad P.E. teacher... Danny feels that everyone in the school are aiming at him, he is extremely upset in the school. And because of that reason, Danny's homework quality is getting worse, his report card grades are lowered, and he gets an "F" on his Math class. Gigi is so worried about that, she calls her friend's daughter for help, but the friend's daughter says she is not mastered on Math, Gigi asks the friend's daughter if she can recommend someone as Danny's tutor. The friend's daughter then recommends her college classmate to Gigi and Danny, her name is Sin Lynn, and she is currently a Business Administration student, she is also good at Math.

Gigi then meets Sin Lynn along with Danny, after the discussions about the tutoring time, transportation, as well as the wage. Both Gigi and Sin Lynn agree that the wage for tutoring Danny should be $300, and it should be paid by the month; Gigi requires Sin Lynn to come to Lui's family home every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, totally 4 days a week to teach Danny; Gigi also says she is not responsible for Sin Lynn's transportation, which means Sin Lynn must have reliable transportations to and from Danny's home; Sin Lynn is required to come at 4:30 p.m. on the assigned days of week, normally she is required to work for 2 hours, however, if that is the day before Danny's tests or exams, the time and days of tutoring will be extended. At the end of the meeting, Gigi tells Sin Lynn about the absence / tardy policy, she states that Sin Lynn must arrive no later than 4:45 p.m. on the tutoring days, and if she arrives after 4:45 p.m., she will be considered as late to work, and three tardies become one absence; if Sin Lynn is sick or something like that manner, she must call Gigi in that morning of the assigned tutoring day, otherwise, she will be considered as absent. The three strikes policy of absence is also clearly stated: First absence, oral warning and reduces $50 of wage on that month; second absence, writing warning and $100 of wage reduction; and the ultimate strike of absences, Gigi will only pay $100 to Sin Lynn, and will ask her "not to come" again because she will be "fired". The conditions are somewhat strict, but Sin Lynn still signs the contract with Gigi, and she begins to work on next Monday.

Today is the first day of Sin Lynn serves as Danny's tutor, Danny feels interested about his new tutor, and he always shows his curiosity to Sin Lynn. Sin Lynn asks Danny if any Math homework that he has questions or does not understand, then she teaches Danny how to solve this Math problem, how to solve that math problem. Danny seems do not understand, and then Sin Lynn explains to him again, "Danny, do you understand now?" "Yes, I do." "All right, then try to solve these problems, I'll check if your answers are correct or not next time." "Bye, Miss Lynn!"

Sin Lynn looks like a reliable, knowledgeable and responsible tutor, she teaches Danny with her heart, but do you think Sin Lynn is really a good tutor? You will know her "true character" later...

Many people are thinking that Sin Lynn may be a good tutor, and she will help Danny getting out of trouble. However, this woman does not help Danny at all, but also makes more troubles to him. Danny's family will later become a protest family because of Sin Lynn!

Sin Lynn has been a very calm, responsible and knowledgeable tutor for the first few weeks, she also fulfills the contract that she signed with Gigi, which is indicated that she have to come to Danny's home four times a week, and she teaches Danny for two full hours each tutoring day.

Gigi is very happy about that, she even gives $100 of bonus to Sin Lynn as the way to appreciate.

Unfortunately, this woman's "true character" is going to be revealed. On the second month of tutoring, Sin Lynn becomes sloppy, working without enthusiasm, and also impatient. Not only these, but she also makes a lot of excuses not to come Danny's home, sometimes says she feels sick, sometimes says she is busy, sometimes says... Anyway, she got a lot of excuses; each time has a different excuse. This woman is very smart, so how smart she is? Do you remember that she signed a contract with Gigi? One of agreements is about the absence / tardy policy. The policy clearly stated that if Sin Lynn cannot come to Danny's home for tutoring, no matter what the reason is, she must first call Gigi in that morning to get permission. But obviously, this woman does not do that. Instead, she takes the "opportunities" on the days that Gigi works late, and then calls Danny but not Gigi to get the permission not to come. Gigi never knows about that, she thinks Sin Lynn comes to tutor Danny four times a week, but she has not yet known that Sin Lynn did only come to teach Danny only four times, not a week, but for a month, $300 is still in Sin Lynn's pocket.

What are the reasons that Sin Lynn not to come? We can tell you, her reasons are strange and ironical. For example, sometimes she tells Danny "I'm not able to come to your home because I missed a bus." But the fact is the distance between Sin Lynn's home and Danny's home is very short, only about five minutes of walking distance, that excuse is very ridiculous.

What is another reason that she does not come to Danny's home? That reason is even more ridiculous! She tells Danny that she is hurt by chlorine, and she is not able to speak. What the hell? Hurt by chlorine? If you are really get hurt by chlorine, you won't only get sore throat, but also chest pains and many other symptoms, even will cause death in some cases. That is a very "good" reason to get the excuse!

Sin Lynn continues to make a lot of reasons not to come Danny's home, but she continues to receive $300 a month of wages. She only work three or four times a month, but did receive a lot of money. Sin Lynn knows that she is cheating, but she doesn't want to be caught. Then she threatens Danny like that "Don't tell your mother that I didn't come or you will get a bad retribution!"

However, anyone who does the things that is justifications for murderous will be punished by the God, Sin Lynn's craft and plot are going to be revealed... But the trouble not only happened on Sin Lynn, but on the whole family of Danny... More stunning thing is going to be happened!

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