Wednesday, September 22

A Day in the Life of a 1st Grade Teacher

*gag warning*

This afternoon a mystery liquid suddenly appeared on the floor.  I know...magic right?  Someone 'mentioned' it by yelling out - "Someone waste on the floor."

 FYI around here - 'waste' means - spilled something.  Yeah...I don't get it either.

And it was a lot!  Not just a little spill.  So I'm looking around trying to figure out what happened and where it came from (it was definitely a spill - not a leak or something like that).  Before I can even turn my head to look around at the bookbags nearby - little "W" walks over to it - DIPS HIS FINGER IN IT...  and wait for it... PUTS IT IN HIS MOUTH.  Yes.  Put. That. Finger. In. His. Mouth.

And then yells out "EWWWWWWW!"

I almost threw up for him.

It was one of those slow-mo moments you hear about - I totally saw him do it  -  I may have even been able to prevent it.  But I was in such a state of "I know he is not going to...oh. my. GOD...yes. he. did." shock -that I couldn't move or get my mouth to make any noise.

I'm sayin'.  That could have very likely been PEE!

I was actually starting to look at the backs of pants so see if someone had an accident before he tasted the mystery liquid.  B/c it was a clear-ish yellow liquid.

And the kicker is - I still don't know what it was.  This is definitely going down in the 'Great Mysteries of My Life' book.  I did have the presence of mind to smell it (just to make sure he didn't actually ingest urine) and it wasn't.  But I don't know, nor will I ever know what it was or where it came from.

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Words of Wisdom


We could learn a lot from crayons: some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, some are broken, some are whole, some have weird names, and all are different colors.... but they all learn to live in the same box.

~Unknown