Inconsistent Toliets
A few people have recently commented on the phenomenon of automatic toliets. I, too, have had similar troubles of the sink not turning on without the doing the hand jive or the toliet not flushing when I want it to and needing to use the (gasp!) manual button, but the question I have every time I leave an automatic restroom is, “What are we teaching the kids?!” Kids have a hard enough time remembering to flush the toliet when things are not automatic so it cannot be a good thing that some toliets are automatic and others are not. I do not want to see the number of unflushed toliets in public places go up because we are inconsistently teaching our children.
Filed under Uncategorized | Comments (3)Onionless Wimp
Yesterday we ordered some take out food and the waitress guiltily approached Tim and said they forgot to put the onions in the dish and would he mind if they weren’t there. He said no, just so we could eat, but we both wanted the onions! We could have been jerks and demanded to speak with the manager or make them give us a discount and they would have done it graciously and probably given us a coupon for a free meal…but instead we got an onionless meal.
I decided that restaurants should voluntarily give you a coupon for a free meal or a discount when things go poorly and you respond nicely. Parents do not give their child extra allowance for yelling or acting inappropriately so why should restaurants cater to onlly those who get angry (which I find is the only way to get action in places…anger = free meal).
I have been teaching assertive communication skills in my guidance class…I suppose I need to take my own advice.
Filed under Uncategorized | Comments (4)Sick Tricks
I am home sick today. I get so bored being sick. I lie around and feel pretty good, so I get up and suddenly feel much worse. What a terrible trick - feel good when lying down, get bored, get up, feel terrible. What about being horizontal makes everything better?
Filed under Uncategorized | Comments (2)A Full Week
I started work January 5th and only now worked my first full week. We have had half days due to parent teacher conferences, days off for the presidents and MLK, a week for winter break, snow days and late starts, and professional development days. I was trying really hard to not work a full 5 days the entire year, but my streak ended yesterday. And what a week - the students are in the middle of standardized testing and it has really effected the kids even though they were only testing for no more than 60 minutes per day. I had to diffuse a fight that was supposed to happen between the jocks and non-jocks, talk to all their parents (who were not happy to hear their sons were planning on fighting), register all the 8th grade students for high school classes, calm other students down who were freaked about testing, talk with fueding girls, and make work on spread sheets from last years standardized tests.
Whew. I am so glad it is the weekend. Bring on the laundry.
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