Oh, Fabulous!
By James Carmody.
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the copyrights to anything in the "Superman" universe, and I forfeit any financial claim to this tale; those including "Smallville", "Supergirl", and all of the "Superman" stories- as I rate them all in the same over-story. (Story universe.)
Genre(s): Humor, family, friendship; that kind of thing.
Rating: Easily PG, or possibly G (worst thing happening in this chapter is an embarrassing error of communication.).
Summary: "Beware what you say, you can't unsay it, and it may well bite your butt, hard!", or so Mr. Bernard finds out to his chagrin in Midvale High History Class, due to a mistaken statement of address.
Characters: Mr. Samuel Bernard, Kara Danvers, Alex Danvers, Kenny Li.
Chapter #1.): "Assorted Chaos Incoming."
Chapter Summary: Samuel Bernard thinks he's caught a student daydreaming, but due to a mistaken address, the question goes to another student.
"… Miss Danvers; Earth to Miss Danvers…" Mr. Bernard thought he had a solid case as he tried to get Kara's attention, and as soon as he asked the rest of his question, much to his alarm, he realized he shouldn't have asked it *quite like that*, as it happened, not *Kara* Danvers, but her older stepsister, Alexandra Danvers was the one who misunderstood and answered his question about the commanding officer of the Continental Army in the US Revolutionary War. All he could think of as the classroom erupted into short, slight, but there peals of laughter for a moment at the look of flabbergasted exasperation on his face as this situation exploded was "I walked right into that one, now, didn't I?"
His response, however, took everything in this unusual situation in stride as he laughing at his own misaddressing of the question about chain of command in that war in the US cause he summed up with "And that's exactly why you've got to be precise about who you want to receive what information, folks." with that he redeemed his lesson material. He knew well that the students weren't being rude, and it was rather ridiculous at the freakish situation as the *wrong* Miss Danvers answered his question- to be fair, he hadn't told them *which* Miss Danvers he was addressing the question to, so he elected to make this a case-in-point lesson on clarity of transmission of information, and finished the class lesson with the words "That's one thing about why the forces in those conflicts had to know *whom* to send *what* data to- as you saw how this erupted when the wrong person received the wrong data; good thing it didn't happen with the grades- now that'd be a whole world of trouble. Class dismissed for today, don't forget to do your scheduled assignments, now get going." he said with a huge grin on his face, as he waved them out of the room to get to their next class. And he for his own case went to his desk to try to figure out what papers to work on and organize his work in-between classes.
To Be Continued…