I was driving to a substitute teaching job on automatic. You know what that is: driving but not really focusing on your driving. My mind was all over the map. I began thinking about the teacher who would be absent that day. He has the same name as a fictional character. That's when I my mind drifted off the side of the street because I wondered if he had ever gotten his DNA checked through one of those online sites. Perhaps he was related to the fictional character (sans "fictional" said in a droll tone). Like a balloon popping, I realized my faux pas. I hoped that this was not an example of what lay ahead for the day. My students enjoy hearing my strange experiences so I shared it with the first period class. You can imagine my surprise when a few of them thought the fictional character was a real person. Their classmates were laughing in disbelief as was I. You never know what will come out of the mouth of a child, even a 10th grader.