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There is a
phenomenon known to all teachers and parents.
You can be in the same room with students and children and as long as
you don’t make eye-contact or ask them a question, you are pretty much
invisible. This has enabled me to learn
much this holiday season. Here are comments
and conversations overhead by the Invisible
Woman.
“You guys
leave your Christmas tree up all year huh?”
“So how many
presents have you found in Mama’s secrete
hiding place in the attic?”
“Why does he
have more presents than me?”
“Well, the
things you want are much more expensive than his.”
“Yeah, you
should want cheap stuff like me.”
“Well I don’t
think wrapping each Ugg boot separately should count as two separate gifts.”
“Do you
think if I say “Call To Duty” would help my social studies grade, Mama would
buy it?”
“The game or
the con?”
“Why are we eating
dinner in the dining room?”
“Mama
cooked.”
“Real food?”
“If the
temperature drops below 32, Mama takes us to school in the truck and you can
sit on the heated seat. But if the
temperature is in the teens, we go in the car and I get to use the remote to
start the car from inside the house.”
Yeah, because
Mama doesn’t have a hot seat.”
“I know what
Mama wants for Christmas. Medicaid.”
“Merry
Maids, MERRY MAIDS! you idiot.”
The way this
is going I will end up with a maid on Medicare, searching the attic for the
left Ugg boot present, and dusting my Christmas tree in August.
Maybe if I
wore a bell around my neck….
1 comment:
I've tried the bell--it doesn't work!!
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