My afternoon duty requires me to stand outside in the elements in front of traffic and make sure that cars are moving and kids are getting picked up safely. Not an easy task when parents scream and curse at you for not letting them park their car in the drive through. Not an easy task when parents lead their children into ongoing traffic. Not an easy task when it is 900 degrees outside. Not an easy task at all.
Days like these make me want another job.
So Thursday I was walking through a classroom to get to my "office" (My office is just a closet behind someone's classroom. I have to actually walk through this classroom to get to my space...fancy huh?) and I am carrying a stop sign. Maybe this time people will look at me as more official if I have a stop sign? Maybe I would get yelled at less with the stop sign in my hand? Maybe as soon as parents start yelling obscenities, I can flash the stop sign and the mean nasty comments will act as a force field, protecting me from meanness??? OK so I can dream right?
So I was walking through the classroom on my way to outside duty when this little girl jumps up from her seat and runs over to me. In her very loud 6 year old voice, she shouts... "Oh, I know you! You work on the streets!!!"
Yes folks. My new job... working on the streets. And I was wondering why I made extra money this month in my paycheck... I said I wanted a different job... just not sure I would want that one.
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