“David Sheldon, you are distracting your neighbor again,” said Mrs. Gorski with her serious voice. “You are going to have to stop making that noise with your pencil!”
I tried to explain that I only wanted to see how many times I could roll my pencil to the very edge of my desk without it falling off, but Mrs. Gorski interrupted me.
“I do not need an explanation, David, but I do need you to pay attention in class.”