{"id":463,"date":"2011-12-27T20:14:12","date_gmt":"2011-12-27T20:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astarmathsandphysics.com\/tutor_profiles\/paul_smith\/paul_smiths_blog\/?p=463"},"modified":"2011-12-27T20:14:12","modified_gmt":"2011-12-27T20:14:12","slug":"how-far-will-some-people-go-to-avoid-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2011\/12\/how-far-will-some-people-go-to-avoid-me\/","title":{"rendered":"How far Will Some People Go to Avoid Me?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most people, if they don&#8217;t want any more tuition will just not answer the door or their phone. Pretty bad if I had to turn up at their door before I found that out, but some have gone a great deal further (or so they say).<br \/>\nThen there was the maths\/physics student who&#8217;d I&#8217;d known for years &#8211; I thought he was a bit clingy, and said something uncomplimentary about his live in girlfriend. Bit of a problem for me now when I need some sensible advice.<br \/>\nThen there was the guy who came around to my very male house, and was sick in the toilet, only making it worse. &#8216;bye&#8217; I shouted, as he went for the door, but he was running at Mach 2.5 or thereabouts so the sound never reached him.<br \/>\nMy favourite of all though was when I realised what a boring pretentious retard manager I was trying to &#8216;impregnate&#8217; (what an unfortunate word to use) with basic calculus. When the time came to be paid and he seemed to have forgotten, I told him, &#8216;Don&#8217;t mess me around darlin&#8217;. Just take off your clothes and gimme your money&#8217;.<br \/>\nFortunately I did get my fee. He didn&#8217;t run far either, cos I met him in the street two months later.<br \/>\nThere was the Australian wannabe vet studying physics, who went to Ireland (she texted me to say)  &#8211; might have been something to do with my having told her that her country populated by the UK&#8217;s rejects of society was doing more to destroy the planet than the retarded cowboy in charge of the USA at the time. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most people, if they don&#8217;t want any more tuition will just not answer the door or their phone. Pretty bad if I had to turn up at their door before I found that out, but some have gone a great &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2011\/12\/how-far-will-some-people-go-to-avoid-me\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Wm4j-7t","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":663,"url":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2012\/08\/unsuspecting-gold-medalists-heading-for-disappointment\/","url_meta":{"origin":463,"position":0},"title":"Unsuspecting Gold Medalists Head for Disappointment","author":"taxicle","date":"August 5, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"In depression hit UK, you might think British gold medal winners at the olympics would be a bit happier than the rest of us, with at least a bit of valuable gold to take along to the local gold merchant. 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