weekend.

Monday, March 26, 2012

What a treat, a hot cup of coffee, a warm cherry danish and afternoon sun coming through the window.

When I worked at a middle school for a year, I did a lot of "duty". Morning and afternoon bus duty, lunch duty, breakfast duty, hall duty, after school bus duty, LOTS of duty. Every morning, I would greet the kids as they got off the bus. Then, after the last bus, I would go into the cafeteria and do breakfast duty. After the second bell rang I would go to the office to see how many bus misconducts I had to deal with, not a pleasant job. I got in the habit of getting a cherry danish on my way to the office to "sweeten upMy attitude really brightened. I headed down the hall with a smile on my face and a skip in my step.
Mr. J saw me walking down toward the lunch room. He also had been busy all morning with the problem and realized what I was doing. He headed in the same direction. I began to walk a little faster, as did he, I walked faster still and so did he. I began to jog, just a little...before we got to the lunchroom, we were running trying to beat the other to the cherry danish. I am faster so I won! It was delicious. He had to eat apple.
Later that day one of the teachers asked what the emergency was that both the intern principal and the safety monitor