Not me directly, but the campers I was responsible for.

I’ve worked at a summer camp for four years, and for all four years, there has been a yoga meditation class scheduled right next door to camp’s homeroom. Now, I can’t blame the yoga teacher for that, but his attitude was still horrendous.

We tried our best to keep 80+ kids quiet during lunch time, but kids make noise. We’d send them outside, and he would complain that they were too close to the windows. We sent them to the gym, he complained they were too loud in transition. His complaints even made it to our bosses- camp just didn’t like him much.

I work with our oldest campers, 12–14 years old. They started to catch on to the absurdity of the situation, and unknown to me, hatched a plan. The next time “yoga man” came in to give us a piece of his mind, they waited until he was done complaining and had turned to leave, then they all screamed, yelled, and sang off-key, all while performing mock-yoga behind me. It was a terrible choir of teenage aggressiveness, and it took all my self control not to join them.

He didn’t bug us for awhile.