[jerkwad]

I'm a teaching assistant for a college physics lab, and today I had a bit of interesting experience that I thought I'd share. I had a couple students that needed to finish the last project, but as I had my own homework to do, I couldn't stay in the room with them. So, I let them in, and went back to my office.

Now, the experiment they were conducting required the room to be completely dark, so all of the lights were off and the window on the door was blocked off. About an hour after I had left them, one of the other TAs went into the lab to get some things. Not realizing that anyone was in there he turned on the lights, and saw the two of them quickly jump apart and return to their equipment. Having realized that he might have interrupted something, he came back to the office and told the person in charge of the lab. I was sitting right next to them as this conversation transpired, and since they were my students, I said I would go and check to make sure everything was kosher.

As I was preparing to enter the room, I made sure to make an excessive amount of noise, so as to announce my presence. As much as I might have found it hilarious to intrude on such activities, I felt it was in everyone's best interest to make sure that I didn't explicitly witness anything. Anyhow, upon walking in the room, they nonchalantly declare that they're finished, and so I turn on the lights. As I walk to the back of the room, I notice he is still fairly hard (he was wearing sweatpants), but say nothing. As I'm checking over the equipment and their results to make sure everything is okay, he makes the comment "You have something on your chin" to his partner. She quickly rubbed her hand across the bottom of her face and giggled, but made no other response. I don't know if anything actually happened, but given the amount of flirting these two do in class on a normal basis, it wouldn't surprise me.

Hopefully the story was somewhat entertaining for some. I got a good laugh out of the situation, and figured I'd pass it on to you all.