If I Had a Blog...

A couple of years ago a funny thing happened at work. After it was over I told a co-worker that if I had a blog this would be a great story for it. Now, I have a blog. So this will be my opening story...

I was working in a middle school (grades 6-8) library. I believe the month was January, definitely cold outside. This wonderful, crazy, 7th grade Geography teacher (Dorothy, you know I'm talking about you!) was having this thing called Tropical Day. They had been studying the South Pacific so why not have a theme day to go along with the studies? Big boxes of bananas, tiny tropical shirt can huggers, you get the picture.

I usually try to participate in these fun days at school, well, because they're fun. So I wore a loud, flowery, tropical shirt and some shell necklaces to school in January. I was having a conversation with the Media Specialist - Judy - about something, and our Russian Principal (we'll call him RP) walked up and joined us. He asked what the deal was with all the tropical stuff, so we filled him in.

"I don't have anything tropical to wear" he said while examining his shirt, tie, and sweater vest.

I had a fake, flower lei that I hadn't put on yet, because I didn't want it getting squished by my heavy, Minnesota winter coat.

"Oh, I have an extra lei you can wear." And I went and got the lei.

He put it over his head, and it looked so good with the sweater vest...

And then I said "Now you can say you got laid (leid?) today."

Judy's mouth fell open and she looked at me in horror.

And then the RP said "What does that mean?"

We both pretended not to hear him and started talking about something else, anything else, maybe cats? But no, he wouldn't let it go...

"What does that mean?" RP asked again.

I had to tell him, he wasn't going to let it go so I said "That means you had sex today."

He snorted, laughed a little and said "So, I shouldn't go around the school saying "Kids, I got laid today?"

RP went on his merry way, and later, I was telling this story to another teacher and I said "When I woke up this morning I didn't think I was going to have to tell the principal what it means to get laid."

You just gotta love middle school!