The things kids say.......

This is a snippet of when I was in grade school and we had to share something about ourselves. Albeit a favorite TV show, animal or food. The idea was to bring it to school if it was a food or animal or draw a picture if you couldn't. So......

Me being me I brought a shoe box and NO it wasn't because I had a fetish of shoes but the creepy crawly, shell having animals that live in the see. That's right!!! I had crabs.

So as the class was going around the room I got restless and couldn't wait to tell everyone what I had and show them what they ate....From those stupid pictures you couldn't figure out , the dogs oh for the love of dogs and the food they ate that people brought. Mine....mine was the most unique....

Finally, after waiting for what felt like hours I got to share but where's my box. So forgetting where I put my box I stood up in my strawberry shortcake dress my mother made to say aloud to EVERYONE including the principle and the parents "I HAVE CRABS". I was immediately rushed to the nurses office and my mother was called. I couldn't understand what I did wrong and kept asking for my shoe box.

My mother arrived shortly after and asked what happened. After the nurse told my mother what I said and the principle said I had to go home and have that taken care of. My mother laughing hysterically stops and interrupts them both to ask "where's my daughter's shoe box". Appalled the principle says "YOUR DAUGHTER HAS AN STD AND YOUR WORRIED ABOUT A STUPID SHOE BOX!!" My mother is amazing and cools down before saying "Yes her shoe box, where is it". I tell her I left it in the room because I had to hurry out of there. She then takes me back to my class room and gathers my belongings and the shoe box. As she is walking out the door from the way she was treated and not understanding why they didn't listen to me when I told them I needed the box. She goes to my teacher and says "Tomorrow I will accept your apology but until then do not contact me after this" and she shows the box with the Hermit crabs crawling along eating Bologna. My teacher startled tries to apologize and grabs the box from my mother on her way out to try and stop her and shows the principle and announces to the class "Who wants to see Hermit Crabs". My mother being who she is and not going to allow this because the way I was treated and she was goes over to the teachers and says "Maybe at the next show and tell but for right now my daughter and I are going to take her CRABS home"!

My mother and I go out for ice cream and she just laughs and asks me what happened. After I tell her (I'm crying) she consoles and says that I did nothing wrong and was upset that no one listened to me when I told them to look in the box to see the crabs!!

Needless to say my mother and father both got an apology from both the principle, nurse and teacher in written and verbal form. In fact the apology went out to the entire class stating how wrong they were, etc. That's what happens at private schools I guess...

Last night my mother and I were talking about the story and started laughing so much we started crying. If she only new back then how much my mouth would get me in trouble throughout the years.