today something happened during physics lec:

while benny lee was lecturing, erica and wanling were taking turns to play the "tap the shoulder" trick on chrees- the one where you mysteriously try to tap a person on their shoulder and not let them catch you doing it. anyway, wanling and erica were both failing horribly at it, so i decided to join in. unfortunately i'm just as pathetic, so when i leant over to tap chrees, it was a bit obvious and she noticed it, and said a very exasperated "be-nny!". since 'benny' is the term of endearment my class has given me, chrees' exclamation must have just been a very natural reaction, and nothing unusual at all, right?

only, as luck would have it, when chrees cried "be-nny!", the lecturer had momentarily stopped talking and so the whole LT was quiet. so it really sounded more like "BE-NNY!". and then, it also so happened that the lecturer was benny lee himself, so he thought that the "BE-NNY!" was actually referring to him. also, it's too bad that his last sentence before that was something like "so we'll finish up this last example before going for a break", so it sounded like chrees' wail was in response to that. and so, poor confused benny lee looked up and said "huh?", with the most quizzical expression i've ever seen.

that's when the sheer jack-ness of the situation hit us and our whole class started laughing like mad. seriously it was so HILARIOUS, i nearly died laughing. it's a good thing it was almost the end of lecture too, because our whole class couldn't stop snorting and giggling after that.

poor chrees- now she has to live with people constantly going "BE-NNY!" to her and reminding her of her one moment of misfortune. i guess i feel kinda bad, cos in a way it was partly my fault that she ended up malu-ating herself like that.

people who insist on giving other people horrible nicknames like "benny"- beware!