My roomate Ernie- the stupidest man to ever have been given a teaching job. Part I

Consider the odds: being given a roommate half the world away who was born in the same hospital as you (in my case back in Loserpeg) and on the same date to boot (albeit 26 years apart). This could be used to argue the underlying cause for my contempt for the man. Admittedly, I feel self-conscious as it is every time I look in the mirror and notice the increasing grey of my temples. But to …

…prodding I confronted one of the teachers about this arrangement. According to her the day had been a disaster with them arriving at 2pm to find Ernie starting to prepare dinner from scratch which took him about 7 hours to do as the girls waited politely in the living room. But did they stay the night, I cautiously enquired. Putting my mind at ease she admitted that they had left after 11pm at the earliest opportunity.