Accounting Step

Confucius said, "The Journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." I would never have imagined that a step would occur in my Accounting class. I remember two things about my Junior year accounting class: 1) Debits and Credits, and 2) Alisa Weaver sat in the front row.

It's no surprise that numbers and my brain do not get along very well. In fact, most of the time they don't even speak to each other. Perhaps one day they will settle their differences, but until then, I try not to get involved. What I did try to do was finally approach Alisa Weaver and introduce myself. Still unable to just walk up and say, "Hello, my name is Taylor Ensign and I think you are really cute." I instead began to create a name for myself in the classroom.

I have always had an ability, no...a gift to be able to use words to manipulate, no...persuade teachers into letting me do, and not do what I wanted. My accounting teacher, Mrs. Moncur was not immune. It was obvious that she had her hands tied with things she too felt were more important than accounting. I simply took the time to remind her each day that she ought to be spending time doing those things, and that we could handle accounting on our own. I instituted the "FREE DAY" in accounting that year. It really boiled down to her working on things in her office while the rest of us played games on the computers and socialized. It didn't take long until I became known in the class as one who could get them out of work for the day by declaring to the teacher it was time for another "FREE DAY."

It was on one of these free days that I finally took the opportunity to approach Alisa. I invited her to come chat in the back of the classroom and assist me with the difficult Wheel of Fortune game I was playing on my computer. The conversation eventually led to the discussion of the Social Dance class she would be taking during the next trimester of classes. I of course left class that day, skipped lunch, and went to see my counselor. I quickly had my class schedule changed for the upcoming months so that I too would be in the same class. I guess I really do like Accounting. It wasn't until our relationship had progressed much further that I learned her father and my future father-in-law was a very successful Accountant.