[Noah930]

Recently one of my HS teachers died. He was our physics teacher and baseball/football coach. And one of my classmates (who played baseball & football) posted something on FB about him. It was to the effect of: When you're a kid, you think things just happen. (Or maybe you don't even think about it at all.) That the goals get set up, that the balls get pumped up, that the pitching machines get calibrated, etc. all by themselves. You don't realize that someone's gotta do all that. You just show up to practice and stuff is ready to go. But somebody's actually has to get everything ready. These things don't just happen by themselves. And you realize now how much a lot of your teachers--in the classroom and on the playing field--busted their butts for us.

OK, so maybe not all of them did. But I suppose those that did are also the ones that we still ask out to dinner now and again.