documenting our weird times
Apr. 15th, 2020 09:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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The kids just went out to wait on the sidewalk because there’s a parade. all the teachers are driving down the various streets of the town in their cars so they can wave out the windows to their students. a fire engine led the way with its siren on. the teachers are honking. most of the cars are decorated, sparingly, with a balloon or two and some streamers. some have signs. “WE MISS YOU”. “STAY SAFE”.
The kids were really excited to maybe glimpse their teachers. Everyone’s honking horns. The parade is going about 35 mph. I don’t know if teachers are stopping when they see their own students, but it might be dangerous if they did, because the cars are pretty widely spaced but going normal traffic speed.
They planned a route so they could go by most of the students’ houses.
If you live in this town and don’t have a kid in the school you must be really confused right now because there’s a lot of honking and the fire engine is going up and down every single street.
It’s also snowing, for the record, but not heavily.
I stayed inside. The car that had its back windshield covered with a sheet of posterboard that said “WE MISS YOU” on it made me tear up so I’m sitting alone in the back room so I can compose myself before the kids come back in. What a weird fucking time we’re living in. Is it ever going to be okay again?
[Sorry to be maudlin, it was a hard day in the baby mines. Miss 5-years-old had more than one meltdown today, and one of them sent her mother off the fucking deep end and I had to talk both of them down separately, and we just have no cope today.]
The kids just went out to wait on the sidewalk because there’s a parade. all the teachers are driving down the various streets of the town in their cars so they can wave out the windows to their students. a fire engine led the way with its siren on. the teachers are honking. most of the cars are decorated, sparingly, with a balloon or two and some streamers. some have signs. “WE MISS YOU”. “STAY SAFE”.
The kids were really excited to maybe glimpse their teachers. Everyone’s honking horns. The parade is going about 35 mph. I don’t know if teachers are stopping when they see their own students, but it might be dangerous if they did, because the cars are pretty widely spaced but going normal traffic speed.
They planned a route so they could go by most of the students’ houses.
If you live in this town and don’t have a kid in the school you must be really confused right now because there’s a lot of honking and the fire engine is going up and down every single street.
It’s also snowing, for the record, but not heavily.
I stayed inside. The car that had its back windshield covered with a sheet of posterboard that said “WE MISS YOU” on it made me tear up so I’m sitting alone in the back room so I can compose myself before the kids come back in. What a weird fucking time we’re living in. Is it ever going to be okay again?
[Sorry to be maudlin, it was a hard day in the baby mines. Miss 5-years-old had more than one meltdown today, and one of them sent her mother off the fucking deep end and I had to talk both of them down separately, and we just have no cope today.]
