My Lessons During a School Lunch

I ate lunch at school with Katie and Hailey. I learned two things in thirty minutes.

First, I cannot parallel park. I knew that before today, but I confirmed it by parking on the school's sidewalk.

Second, chicken has bones. Again, I knew that before today, but evidently several Kindergarten through second graders were shocked to find bones in the chicken thighs the school served them. The chicken nuggets & chicken strips they were probably accustomed to were decidedly void of bones...or so one hopes.

I vividly recall the day Mom took me to grandma's house to clean chickens. My-eight-year-old mind could barely bridge the gap between the cruelty to those headless, running creatures and the delicious meal served that evening. Yes, I definitely knew before today that chickens have bones.

In addition to these two things I also learned one student's nickname, four students' opinions of yesterday's vegetarian lasagna, the procedure for getting seconds, that I'm going deaf and that, AMAZINGLY three or four adults can very successfully control an entire lunchroom of grade school children.

Katie and Hailey have requested that I eat lunch with them every Friday. I think I'll take them up on that one...well, not EVERY Friday, but regularly. I know the days of having my girls request that I spend time with them amongst their peers are numbered.

One last thing before I go: Hey Shannon!!! FOUR readers??? I'm definitely on the road to fame! I think "blog" is short for "web log." If anyone knows differently, let me know.