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It seems strange to me now, but I accepted it as the normal course of business in those days. Roughly 10% of each lecture was devoted to “boy feet” and their grossness, which prepared me for a world in which some folks hate/fear boy feet, others fetishize them, many don’t care

He hated large feet in particular, and always knew which male students had the largest feet and not only the longest toenails but the longest nail pads, the area where the nail sits directly on the toe. Until he began expounding on that, I’d never given it any thought

Even back then, I was already missing two entire nails — there’s nothing there — and one day I was wearing some Reef sandals and the teacher took notice and began saying, “yuck yuck, Mr Pink Foot” and thereafter called me “Pinky,” a nickname that didn’t follow me out of the class

What the hell kinda school was this???

A public school in Eastern NC. This guy was a bit of a dandy too...a natty dresser with a soft, fleshy kind of permanently sunburn-red body and thin, straw-like hair parted in the middle of a receding hairline

Seems like he should have been reported.

He introduced us — or at least me, 75% of the room was asleep — to the films of David Lean and Powell/Pressburger so for that I’m in his debt. Really liked feet

What a freak.