I am a chatterbox

from an interview with fran lebowitz from august 1978:

Lebowitz: I was a behavior problem as far as talking. I talked out of turn, I talked too much, I talked in class, I made jokes during the lessons, I whispered to other children. I wasn’t an interesting behavior problem. I wasn’t glamorous and rebellious. I just talked too much. My first school punishment was sitting in the corner in kindergarten wearing a Band-Aid over my mouth and holding up a sign that said “I am a chatterbox.” That was my first run-in with authority.

i keep laughing about this — being an adult and doling out this punishment — making the sign, applying the band-aid — is bananas. (full disclosure i was also a chatterbox as a child.)