The nicest compliment

So if you couldn't tell from the title I got the nicest compliment today. One of my former teachers from high school occassionaly brings 2 of her grandchildren to J. Bird's music class. We've spoken a couple of times about school and her grandchildren.

So she was there again today and after class she comes up to me and says "you know what I remember about you from my class?". Now let me stop here and say all of a sudden I got really nervous. I flashed back to high school and I remembered having my desk moved several times for talking in class. I remember getting kicked out of my Spanish class for being a smart a**. I also think that JMU actualy reconsidered admitting me after I took a math placement test freshman year and was sent to the lowest level math class JMU had to offer, we're talking basics here. This teacher was my former Trig. teacher so now you can see why all of a sudden I wasn't so sure I wanted to hear what she was going to say. I took a quick look around at who was going to hear this revelation and only my friend N. was within earshot not too bad. With a shaky laugh I said ok. She said "I remember that you always had a smile on your face". At the time I was too relieved to actually take in the the compliment but now it brings a smile to my face and I hope it's one that's there as often now as it was in high school.