June 21, 2005

  • Parenting Training

    It's a crowded
    restroom at the rec center where a junior counselor is shepherding five
    little campers, who've entered the stalls to change into bathing suits.

    Counselor:  (nervously surveying the row of closed stalls) Okay, I think we need to assign numbers to you guys.

    Girl:  I'm 99!

    Counselor:  Uh -- no, how about 1 through 5?

    Girls:  (chattering all at once) I'm 1!  Yeah, I'm 4!  No, I'm 4!  No, ME.  I want to be 4!

    Counselor:  Errr -- okay, I'll assign
    the numbers.  [the girls emerge, after loudly comparing suits, and
    she counts off]  1, 2, 3, 4, 5.  Okay, now you say your
    numbers.

    Girls:  3! 5! 4....4 heh heh. 2!  1, 1, 1!

    Counselor:  No, no, NOOOO!  In order.



    ....at which point I had to leave to avoid laughing too impolitely loudly....

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