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Years ago I got a grant to purchase toys to teach physics.  Part of it was wind up robots to show potential and kinetic energy.  It was slow Friday after the pep rally there was no way to get them to work.  So I got out seven of the robots.

Usually kids just wind them up and play.  My knuckleheads had a stack of books and was doing Robot Thunderdome.

It is how you phrase it

So I'm writing my first draft of a letter to my administrators asking them to fix the surface of the lab stations in my chem lab. I really signed the first draft, "I remain, respectfully..."

I read waaaaay to much historical fiction