Our School District is kind enough to offer jump start summer programs for the students.
“So…it’s summer school?” I asked.
“No…well yes…but not like summer school when we were young.” Annie replied, “It’s educational fun stuff, Lydie’s involved in a stage production of the Lion King, she’s also taking a Learning with Legos course.”
I certainly wasn’t about to criticize it, it’s summer vacation, any opportunity to get my obnoxiously bored little girl out of the house for a couple hours is golden, I’m taking it! Apparently my sister and my cousin are also taking the opportunity, and apparently one day they were both tied up and couldn’t pick up their little ones and they both sent me texts about this. So I made sure the seat belts in the back row were working, Manivan was on the move!
Before I go on, for those who may not know me, I wear a kilt on most days, no tartan affiliations, no cultural affiliations for that matter, my kilts are just plain old “utility” kilts. Think what you will about me, I don’t really care. I will say that the kilt is possibly the most comfortable article of clothing ever invented. I’m telling you about my preference for kilts because this fact about me matters in a couple minutes.
As per usual, before I even had a chance to start the van, appropriately juvenile trash talking erupted from the back, inappropriately juvenile trash talking (I’m the adult here, I ought to be rising above all of this…but I won’t) was being launched right back from me.
The topics were hilariously age appropriate, talk of poop, farts, and toilets. Someone was talking about running full speed into tree trunks (huh? Okay.). There were also threats, “I’ll do this to you!” and “Oh yeah? Well I’ll do that to you!”. It was fun to listen to and I did my part to keep the dialogue moving.
Then one of them threatened to sneak up behind me and pull my pants down.
“Ha!” I yelled back, “I’m not wearing pants!” This caused an uproar of laughter from everyone in the van.
It was then that I thought how happy I was that the windows were up when I yelled that out.