Mysteries of The Teachers’ Lounge
As a student, the teachers’ lounge was a place of mystery and intrigue (and, depending on when you went to school, there may have been a faint smell of cigarette smoke when you walked by). If you ever got to peek inside the lounge before getting hurried away, you saw a strictly grown-up area devoid of colorful motivational sayings that filled nearby classrooms and heard laughter and conversations that made you come to grips with the idea that teachers were (gasp!) friends with one another. It also usually had donuts, cookies, or some other baked good sent by the PTSA, and the center table was littered with a pile of Avon catalogs that were at least ten years old.