YOU MAKE ME SICK!

Blog number 498 ******* 18 March 2011


My substitute teacher friend told me that yesterday some student stole a bunch of Jolly Rancher candies out of his jacket that was on his chair.


So this morning he told the class that he had put one of the candies in his mouth, but he wasn't feeling so good - that he thinks he might be coming down with something (this was not true) so he put the candy back in its wrapper so that it wouldn't soil his jacket and put it in his pocket.


He then told them that he hoped that whoever took the candies didn't eat the one he had in his mouth with his saliva all over it and he hoped it wouldn't make the person sick.


He said these kids are unbelievably germophobic that, "You should see the looks on their faces for instance, if a trash can is full of paper only, and you put a package of unopened cookies in there, then take it back out. Not a single kid will eat one of the cookies."


This next might not seem like a segue at first, but it is. I was riding the bus in Sacramento, sitting right behind the driver. We were coming up on a traffic light and she said, "Watch this." She pushed a button. Once, twice, three times. "Darn! This is supposed to make the light turn green." She pushed again. And again. Then gave up and we waited at the red light.

At first I thought, '' What a great gadget. She can catch all the green lights." But then I got to thinking, "Why would they give a bus driver the power to control traffic lights? Answer? They wouldn't."

What happened, I am pretty sure, is that someone was playing a prank on her and told her that story and she believed it. Hell, she had me believing it.