Well kids, hope you’re surviving the week. If you live in The Woo, you have a full 5 days of school this first week back, there’s no messing around here, you’re jumping right back into things. We hope you’re surviving all that first week of school brings; the traffic, school buses, making of lunches, bedtime routines, you name it. The summer’s over, time to get it together. Here’s what I’ve got…
1. With the start of the new school year, the new Doherty High School is now open. According to the youngest Kap kid, she’s been walking up and down and all around the dozens of floors and hallways and classrooms to get to where she needs to be. Up a flight of stairs to get to another flight of stairs to climb to another flight of stairs and so on. When she thought she was where she needed to be, off she went again, you guessed it – to more stairs. The kid’s exhausted.
2. This newest generation of kids will now have their own walking to and from school stories, only they’ll be able to talk about all the walking they had to do inside the school building. We used to talk about walking to school during the Blizzard of ’78, or walking to school in the rain, sleet, snow, hurricanes, you name it, all uphill…these kids will be able to tell us they walked up stairs and stairs and more stairs in all directions, all day long, inside their school building just to get to class.
3. That brings me to the teachers and the janitors. Do you think the teachers and janitors thought they’d have to go through an advance physical training regimen all summer just to prepare to be able to make it up and down all these stairs and through the hallways? No, no they did not. I say, all the teachers should wear sneakers every day from now until forever. All that walking and getting their steps in, they may as well. Exhibit 1, one of our favorite Doherty staff’s newest footwear to help her get through all that exercise this school year.
4. The janitors. How many janitors do you think they have? They’re going to need a fleet of them because there can’t possibly be enough time in the day or the overnight shift for one or two janitors to clean that place. And let’s face it, kids are gross. Doesn’t matter how nice a building is, they’re still going to throw trash around and stick gum to things that shouldn’t have gum on them. Or get those janitors larks to tool around on, or a golf cart. That’s a lot of space to cover.
5. For those of you who read The Antics regularly, you’ll remember that the oldest Kap kid thought it would be a good idea to try to approach a wild hood turkey that was walking up his street in Boston a few weeks back. Upon approach, he quickly realized this turkey meant business and had summoned his friends. What appeared to be one turkey quickly turned into three, making Sam retreat from where he came, no longer feeling brave enough to go make friends with the feathered beast. Well, the turkeys have found him, where he lives, and where he parks his car. Exhibit 2, They’re coming for you Sam, look out.
6. When you’re the youngest kid of the neighborhood group who was taking first day of school pictures long before you actually stepped foot in school yourself, that means you will also be the last one in the neighborhood still around for the first day of school picture. This group humors me every year, gets together over facetime no matter where they are, to get together to join the youngest Kap kid for her first day of school picture. Yes, I’m aware one in this group is a full-grown adult with a real life job, the other is in Florida, another getting his masters in New York, and another finishing up her undergrad, but it doesn’t stop them from participating in our annual first day of school picture. They’re all good sports and do my heart good. Exhibit 3, the Asbury kids annual 1st day of school picture.
7. It wasn’t just traffic and the back-to-school routine messing with people this week, I was torturing myself and my elders one early morning at a time. Getting my dates mixed up I showed my lovely, decaffeinated face all the way in Gilbertville at 8am to be told by my clients that I was two days early to help them with their online zoom court hearing. Nothing like scaring the hell out of the elderly showing up at their house unexpectedly at 8am on a random Tuesday. So, if you’re looking for me this morning people, I’ll be trying again, and hanging out with my peeps in Gilbertville on this fine end of summer morning. I was lucky enough to get them to answer the door for me once this week, I may have to show up with donuts this time to get them to open the door for me again. I’ll let you know how it works out.
8. Here’s a good one. A tried-and-true Antics reader caught this picture outside of his former favorite take out place. He’s informed me that after watching this all go down, he will never go back to this particular dining establishment ever again. This giant hawk swept down, grabbed this rat, and proceeded to hang out with it on top of a patron’s car. It had the nerve to do so directly in front of the establishment, clearly not doing anything to help or promote business. Yes, this was in the Woo. And yes, had this been my vehicle I would have sold it, refusing to ever drive it again. Boston will be jealous of this one…unless their turkey’s start doing this, I’d say we’ve got them beat. Exhibit 4, hawks gone wild. RIP rat.
9. I got a call last week from a coworker asking if we had any cat food in our supply closet in the office because there was a cat who was left home alone and in need. Back before the renovations in our building, we used to have a supply closet that we stored items in for those clients we may run across who were down on their luck – often this involved food for their pets. I had to break it to them that my supply closet was no longer and was transformed into Joe Burns office awhile back. I’m going to start storing stuff in there, see if he notices.
10. In case anyone's wondering, I still hate this thing. It would be a shame if it went missing.
Exhibit 5
And last but not least, whatever you're up to this Labor Day weekend, we hope you do something fun and are out there soaking up what we have left of the summer sun.
Have a great weekend!
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