Thursday, October 07, 2004
Open Please
It seems that I have become the official jar-opener guy at the kindergarten. I'm not sure how the word got out but now anytime a teacher can't get something open they usually sulk on over to my room and I can tell by that half smile half pouty face that there's probably something for me to open. I suppose this is inevitable considering I'm the only male teacher in a school full of frail, young, female teachers. Of course this does afford me brief periods of chivalry and outright manliness.
Today one of the teachers didn't even come herself. I was just chilling in the class cutting up some papers for some doll things the kids are making and I hear from the direction the door "OPEN PLEASE!!". It was a pudgy rapscallion of boy donning a purple hat and holding a tub of blue paint. After a brief moment of confusion and the fact that he cleared up his intentions in Japanese I opened the jar for him and sent him on his way with a message to the teacher that a 3000 yen surcharge will be billed to her for future jar openings.
Today one of the teachers didn't even come herself. I was just chilling in the class cutting up some papers for some doll things the kids are making and I hear from the direction the door "OPEN PLEASE!!". It was a pudgy rapscallion of boy donning a purple hat and holding a tub of blue paint. After a brief moment of confusion and the fact that he cleared up his intentions in Japanese I opened the jar for him and sent him on his way with a message to the teacher that a 3000 yen surcharge will be billed to her for future jar openings.
Song of the Moment: Aesop Rock- "Float"
"This fallen angel could stitch a wing with a shoestring"
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