Today, as I stood sweating on the playground (when does it get cooler in this godforsaken place?), I once again failed to control my facial expressions in front of the children as the discipline officer came over the PA system to announce a terrible thing: a child had put money into the vending machine to buy a lemon tea (so HK)... only to have another child jump ahead of them and grab it from the machine!! Petty crimes at such a young age...
The announcement at the end of the day was even better though. Apparently, during the lunch recess, the discipline officer had two grade 1 students come up and inform him that older students had thrown a basketball at their heads! The horror, right? But alas, upon further investigation, the discipline officer realized that the older students were not intentionally throwing basketballs at the little ones' heads. Rather, they were rightfully (and in an orderly fashion) lining up to shoot hoops and had simply missed, only to have the basketballs bounce off the rim/backboard and again off the ground but still hitting the unaware first graders. The rest of the announcement involved sensitive warnings to the young ones to not stand under the basket or near the basketball courts during lunch recess since basketball is a designated activity. How this man makes announcements and gives out punishments without ever cracking up is beyond me.
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You sound like you are in some kooky movie where a guy is super high on dope and having delusions.
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