Miss Bowden

Quotes

"Can anyone drive? Go out and move my car"

"If your work is late you'll get referred. Unless you attach some chocolate to it. Or a bottle of wine. Red wine. And none of that cheap rubbish either.."

"This is NOT a lab and I am NOT eating my lunch" (while eating a sandwich in room 1)

"You better not be using your mechanism pen for anything other than mechanisms!!"

"So if I dressed up as you and sat your exams, which I would, for a fee.."

Organic Chemical Smells

(At front of laboratory with large bottles of esters) "Don't SNIFF, WAFT"

"Come here and have a Waft of these... except this one, it's mine and it smells too nice for YOU"

(First lesson in Year 12) "Right now this is <insert smelly chemical> remember WAFT... (passes to nearest student)... Now pass this around don't hog it..." *student wafts then reluctantly passes it round*

Bottle gets to the end of the class

"Nobody has Asthma do they?" *first student puts hand up* "Oh erm well... just go and sit at the back of the class... yes... do you feel alright...??"

Threats

• "Luke! I hope your pants are up"

• "Stop writing or I'll melt your pen"

• "If I find you chewing your mechanisms pen then I'll MAKE you buy a new one"

• "They better not be blocking me in"

• "If anyone asks, Mr Ormerod let you out early." (She employed this tactic before he moved schools, but when he had, it was suffixed by:)

"Say it quickly then run... if its Doc Rob or someone they might never notice..."

Conversations in the room with Dr Robinson

Doc Rob: *Bursts in to lesson door slams against wall* YOU ARE BLOCKING ME IN

Miss Bowden: "Do you need to get out now?"

Doc Rob: "No but I will do ten minutes into Period 3"

Miss Bowden: "I ll go and move my car..."

Doc Rob: "No NO No Don't do that, It'd disrupt your lesson and I wouldn't want to do that..."

Miss Bowden: *Gives Doc Rob the "What do you think you're doing now then?" stare*

Doc Rob: "Erm... Yes..." *whilst walking out the door* "CARRY ON!"

Miss Bowden: "For Homework, Answers to why that just happened, bring them to the next lesson..."