Igor

Have you ever gotten one of those terrible back knots that feels like you've just been stung by a bee? They're no fun, but putting pressure on it or getting a friend to help you work it out really helps. We were in the habit of getting to school early, my sister and I, and one morning before physics she went to put her bag down she got a terrible stinger. I knew it hurt like anything, but quite frankly I had had my fill of working out back knots. So instead of helping her, I did the only thing a sibling could, to show the full depth of my devotion to family. I hunched one shoulder over and did my best impression of Marty Feldman in the movie Young Frankenstein. My sister was standing there frantically trying to deal with the stinger when a strange expression came over her. She tilted her head to indicate to me that I should turn around. I did, and there was our physics teacher with a look of puzzlement on his face.

"Well, that was quite the, ah, little dance," he said after a full thirty seconds of us all just standing there awkwardly.

I then, of course, had to explain the entire thing. It turned out he had had a similar experience before and completely understood, but it was still mortifying to have to explain to one of my favorite teachers why I was doing a heartfelt hunchbach impersonation when he walked into the room.