We keep a few. When we go out, I put frozen water bottles in the socks (one bottle per sock). That way as they thaw out in our backpack and condensation forms, the sock absorbs it and everything in our backpack doesn’t get wet.
I always save them, thinking that I will have a light bulb moment for use by the preschoolers. I realized that my students can use them to erase the chalkboards — sock on one hand and chalk in the other!
Have you ever felt just a little too old?….. Heres a funny tale:
My name is Alice, and I want to tell you a story about me feeling way to old: I was sitting in the waiting room waiting to see the dentist. I noticed his DDS diploma on the wall which bore his full name. Suddenly, I remembered a tall, handsome, dark-haired boy with the same name that had been in my high school class some 40-ODD years ago.
I had to take a step back and think: Is this the same guy that I had a crush on way back then? Upon seeing him, However, I quickly discarded and such thought. This balding, gray haired man with deeply lined face was way too old to have been my classmate.
After he examined my teeth, I asked him if he had attended Morgan Park High School which he replied to “Yes. Yes, I did. I’m a mustang!” I asked when he graduated and he answered “In 1975. Why do you ask?” I told him he was in my class and he looked real closely at me AND THEN…….
THEN, THAT UGLY, OLD, BALD, WRINKLED FACED, FAT-BUTTED, GRAY-HAIRED, DECREPIT OLD MAN ASKED, “‘WHAT DID YOU TEACH???”
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