"Can you keep a secret?"

The answer is obviously "no" since I'm blogging about it.

A former Hamilton student contacted me on Facebook to tell me that she secretly had a crush on me while in my classes.

In situations like this I have absolutely no idea how to respond. This case was even more awkward because my gut reaction was to write back, "So using your 13 year old son as a lure to bring your 18 year old male classmates to your place to play video games was... what?"

Instead, I played dumb. I thanked her, asked about Iowa weather and found an excuse to get offline as soon as possible.