Grab bag

A drunk man came to school the other day.  He is the 41 year old cousin of a boy at our school.  The boy is not a popular boy.  He sometimes runs around the classroom for no reason and attacks the blackboard with chalk.  He doesn't play well with others I hear.  I don't teach him, alas.  So his older cousin got drunk sometime before 12:30 on a Tuesday and came to school with the goal of going to his homeroom class and telling all the children not to pick on him.  Now this man I understand.  You get drunk a few days in a row before noon and you start to question what goodness you are bringing to the world.  You little cousin sneaks you a beer that night because he's too young for his parents to include him in the serious family discussion about your alcohol abuse and you start to feel like maybe he needs somebody in his corner.  When you're making your way through your rice and rice-wine at  9:40 in the morning and it is the time to make plans, turn things around and start to leave your mark in the lives of the people who enable you.  I get it.

A woman pulled out and hit a kid on its way to the elementary school beside my middle school.  I'm not trying to be crass, I just heard the the kid referred to as 'he' and 'she' from different people telling me the story.  I was unfortunately on time for school and so missed being a witness.  I would tell you that the kid is fine, but I actually have no idea.  The order of events went like this: Woman hits kid, kid falls down, woman screams (in car), woman screams (out of car), woman hauls kid to its feet and then into her car.  Woman drives off. I'm going to be honest and tell you I don't understand this one at all.

And finally, sometimes we do good work around here.  Sometimes I get called in to do a class last minute, but the computer is broken by the kids so I'm sent back to my desk, but the computer is fixed by the kids so I'm called back, but the computer's sound doesn't work so I hang out while the kids try to fix it and eventually the tech guy comes by and fixes it in three seconds and we watch 9 minutes of hilarious sitcom 'Community' and the bell goes and I wish them good luck on their exams.  Lately it's one or the other.