Kids are so darn cute!

One of the ladies that I work with had to go to a funeral in Hawaii, so we were short an extra person. You see, we're already down with one lady regularly due to long-term sick leave. When we have two people short, our supervisor has to fill in. All of us ladies love this and see it as an oportunity for our boss to see first hand what we are talking about with different issues within the cafeteria.

I don't know if it is just the change of weather, but the kids at school are acting strangley different! The fourth and fifth graders have been so rambunctious and loud! When Billie (our supervisor) is in her padded office she can not hear them. Sometimes it has gotten unbearable with the lunch ladies/cafeteria aids blowing their whistles in addition to the sound level that the kids are making. Billie was now experiencing the loudness for herself, and would get up from the register several times to walk out into the cafeteria where the kids were being seated. I guess she was hoping her presence would quiet them down.... it worked only for a short while. After they were all seated she gave them a "talking to".

It was time to wash tables, and I was standing out there with the children listening to the cafeteria aids blowing their whistles once again. Then a hush came over the room. I looked to see Billie enter with an "I have HAD it!" look on her face. She then proceeded to tell them she didn't want to hear one sound out of them for five minutes!

She told them all, "Look at the clock, don't look at me... look at the clock! You all know how to tell time. For five minutes not one sound! I want to hear a pin drop!"

One, two, three, four and finally five mintues pass. She then said, "OK! I know that you can do this! From now on, I want to hear nothing but a dull roar come out of you!"

While she was walking back to her sound proof office, as if planned unanimously, all the kids said in a dull, low voice... "ROAR!" She whipped her head around as if had she gotten bit in the butt. The aids and I started laughing hysterically and Billie had to turn her head fast because she almost lost her look of sternness, and started to laugh with us!

I love working with children! I couldn't believe how quick-whitted they were, almost as if it were planned!