There was never another student like Roger. He interrupted the teacher twenty to thirty times a period with comments that only he thought were amusing. As he was laughing, the teacher would look at the other students to see if they understood his remark. After a shrug of the shoulders to show their bewilderment, the class would continue till the next interruption.

A student teacher in the class wanted to direct a play. Both he and his critic teacher felt Roger would benefit from the positive recognition he would receive by playing a role in the show. Roger only had a small part, so the student teacher felt confident on the day of the show that everything would be all right, even though Roger didn't know his lines too well.

Thee light crew could not see the stage, and the student teacher, who sat in the balcony gave them their light cues over an intercom system. Everything went well until Roger played his scene. He said his lines in an odd way, and the audience laughed. The laughter interrupted his train of thought, and he missed his next line altogether. Soon, despite loud prompting, he faced the audience and silently started rocking back and. forth like a caged animal. He didn't know what to do, so be fainted. Most people crumble when they faint, but Roger fell like a giant redwood tree. The student teacher asked for the lights to be turned off, but the light crew refused, since they knew the scene lasted several minutes more. They thought the young teacher was making a mistake. The other actors on stage walked around the body scratching their heads. The director asked again that the lights be eliminated. There was no response. The audience thought it was part of the play. Finally the student teacher spoke into the intercom with a whisper that could be heard all over the auditorium. "Kill those Gawd damned lights!" The lights went down, and six members of the stage crew scurried on stage in the dim light to remove the body. Half way off, they dropped him before finally removing him from the stage. The lights came up, and the next scene started as though nothing had happened. But then the audience started laughing. The stage crew had not removed Roger all the way off stage. His feet were sticking through the curtain.

The experience didn't seem to bother Roger much. The next day he was back interrupting the teacher again.