An Oldy But Still a Goody

Before I start my funny story a quick update on the blog problem with the district. They are desperately trying to find my blog on the web. They don't realize that I am smarter than the average person when it comes to the interwebs and hiding things on said net. So I am still going as of now and I have a pretty good case to back me up if it comes to it. Plus, a lawyer. Yes, I will sic a lawyer on my beloved district.

Anywho...

In the fall about 4 years ago I happened to wander out to the playground to see what was the haps during lunch recess. It was warm so I was there. I'd been out there for a few minutes when several little girls came running up to me and yelling that there were boys in the pine tree (there is a lone, large pine tree on one side of the playground) and they were peeing off the tree. I expected to see the "usual suspects" but was very surprised to find the best 4 or 5 boys in 6th grade peeing out of the tree. They had climbed out of the tree once the other kids started yelling that I was coming over and were trying to get away but I radioed in to Bossy to call them into the office.

Here they came one crying already, a couple smiling sheepishly, and the others looking quite guilty. The one that really cracked me up was a kid who had just had shoulder surgery and his arm was in a sling then tied to his body. I couldn't figure out for the life of me how he'd climbed that tree one-armed then manage to unzip and let it rip.

We took them into the then Pal's office and made them call their mothers--they were suspended for a 1/2 day. They all turned into blubbering messes when confronted by their mothers. Most of them got a good lecture from their moms but the one who had the arm in the sling his mom just laughed and laughed. Which was amusing to the rest of us. We were all giggling about it too. It was just to funny not to laugh.

The other day the kid with the sling (now, of course not in a sling) came in to check out his sister and I said, "Hey, remember when you climbed up the pine tree one-armed and peed out of the tree?" He said, "Oh man, I was hoping you had all forgotten that." He said he would never forget that and he didn't know what had come over him that day. I told him that that was one of our favorite stories to recount. Bossy and I just laughed and laughed while we recounted it with him. His older sister was there with him and hadn't heard the story. We were glad to tell it again.

I finally asked him how he had climbed that tree with one arm and he said he didn't know but where there's a will there's a way.