was our school safety officer, Mr. J. Most days Mr. J would bring a student into my office for one thing or another. We did morning breakfast duty together, lunch duty together and he was usually a part of bus duty in the morning and the afternoon. We became good friends and since he was a young single guy, he often hung out with my family (I did have 4 boys at home), had dinner with us and watched football on Sunday afternoons.
Well, Mr. J's birthday was coming up and we needed to plan something very special for him, he worked so hard you know. The lunch supervisor and I decided to fill the cab of his little pick-up with popcorn. We spent days after work popping cornin the microwave (no fat to stain the seats). Finally the big day arrived and we snuck out to the parking lot and filled the cab with the popcorn, stuffing the last bit through a crack in the driver's side window.
At lunch, I told him the assistant principal wanted him to go to the city park. One of our finest was spotted skipping school and Mr. J needed to go reign him in. Mr. J left in a hurry to go retrieve the offending student. He came huffing back into the lunch room and announced, "Someone has filled my truck up with popcorn!"
We looked as innocent as possible (it even worked). He asked me who did such a thing? I innocently answered, "Who has a stay at home