Kids are suckers
March 14, 2007 at 11:51 am | In random | 5 CommentsAnd the people who run the elementary school near my house are brilliant. My walk to work takes me right by the school’s playground, and many times when I walk by, the kids are either playing before school or during recess. It has snowed a few times in the past month or so and, of course, it’s built up on the playground. When it became icy, I sort of wondered to myself how the kids and the staff were going to handle that: would the caretakers salt the playground? would the kids have indoor recess? Well, it turns out that I was totally wrong:
Apparently, all you have to do to get kids to shovel snow for you is hand them brightly-colored shovels. Even today, when most of the icy buildup has melted, they were out there with their shovels, cheerfully chipping away at what remains of winter.
If I have kids (God forbid, obviously) and we live in a cold climate where it snows in the winter, I’ll just find the most colorful shovels I can (making sure they’re made from strong stuff, of course), and send the rugrats outside to “play” as I sit indoors, smoking cigarettes and drinking Irish coffee. You can nominate me for Mother of the Year later.
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I used to get my brother to do my chores for me by telling him I’d time him and that he could break the record I set when I was his age.
Worked every time.
Sucker.
Comment by Alli — March 16, 2007 #
That may be the most awesome thing I’ve heard all week.
Comment by Tasha — March 16, 2007 #
At least he can fall back on his good looks…
Comment by Alli — March 17, 2007 #
You are hilarious…and I can totally see you doing that. What school are you talking about? RSGC? Or the place on campus?
Comment by Lorien — March 17, 2007 #
thats not funny your just taking advantage of kids f u year ur halarious j a
Comment by Matthew — June 14, 2009 #