Learnin' with Mr. Peanutbutter, Thursday, period 1

[hollywoostar]

Every desk in the classroom today had a sewing machine on it. The type of sewing machine varied: there were fancy modern sewing machines with built in sergers that could do programmed embroidery. There were tiny little plastic sewing machines that couldn't actually handle doing more than sewing two pieces of jersey together (and couldn't actually do that very well). There were iron workhorse sewing machines from the '50s that weighed a ton and only did one stitch but would do that stitch forever. There was even a handcranked sewing machine for one lucky student, mostly because Mr. Peanutbutter was starting to think his show didn't have enough manufactured drama on it. Aren't you so glad you're in this class?

"Welcome back, kids," Mr. Peanutbutter greeted. "Today, what with the holiday coming up, I thought it'd be a good time to tackle one of the more esoteric high school classics: Home Economics."

It should be noted that Mr. Peanutbutter had never in his life taken a Home Ec class. Or any other class with "economics" in the title. Much to his accountant's dismay.

"Now, I never took Home Ec." At least he's honest? "But if I've learned anything from movies and television --" We all know by now that he hasn't, right? "-- it's that sewing useless crap is a big part of it. So today, we're going to follow a nice simple pattern to make ourselves our very own witch hats! Won't that be fun?"

It'd be reasonably fun for Mr. Peanutbutter. He was going to nap. The rest of you all had to do math. Involving pi.

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[hollywoostar]

It's not really much of one this week. He was going to go into Home Ec being a girls' class, but Diane told him in no uncertain terms that he shouldn't reinforce the gender binary like that, so he kept it simple.