Go Figure Friday or Things That Made Me Go "Hmmm..." This Week

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 This weeks head scratchers...

~Cina came home with a disturbing note from school. Seems that when the water at the high school was tested, it came back positive for lead. Disturbing, yes. But the even more disturbing part is that after all the information about lead and it's dangers, after all the information about what can be done to protect our children and clean up the lead, under "Actions Being Taken", it is BLANK. That's right, there is nothing there!  Even scarier than that, I can't seem to get any answers anywhere. Has the school shut off the water fountains. Nope. Are they providing the students with bottled water? Nope. Are meals still being prepared with this water? Probably.

  Until something is done, Cina is carrying bottled water and taking lunch from home. But what about the kids who didn't even bother giving their parents the note? There is no information about this on the school's website. Normally,  a lab rat can fart at that school and the phone is ringing off the hook with a recorded message about the "exciting news". There have been no calls about the lead tainted water. It just seems that, after sending home the required water test report, everything is being kept low key. It really makes my ass wanna chew tobacco... ( hillbilly for "angry") 

 ~ My thumb isn't as green as I thought...

  After re-potting the Peace Lily, that Hubs has had longer than he has had me, things are not looking so well for the plant. It's not dead, but it isn't very alive either. It's really green but also very "floppy". In a coma of sorts. Mentally, I kneel by it's bedside each day and weep. Sobbing, " I had no choice! You were root bound,  your soil was moldy, and you made me sneeze, whenever I came near you! If you die, Hubs will KILL me! Please, come back to us! Wake up before Hubs notices what I have done to you!!!" So far, it isn't working...

 ~ Ross is a 20 month old tattle tail...

  While toddling around the dining room the other day, she stopped cold in her tracks, her eyes got really big as she spied the dying plant, and she began to shout, "OSCAH! OSCAH!". Then turns to me and asks very worried, " Where's Oscah?" (Oscar) . It seems that Hub's Peace Lily, now resembles the dead plants that Oscar has out side of his trash can on Sesame Street. Of course, Hubs had to come see what the commotion was about... Thanks Ross, thanks a lot! LOL

 ~ The award for Best Actress in a Spontaneous, Totally Uncalled For, Dramatic Performance, goes to Selly! ...

  When the girls arrived home from school Wednesday, Cina told me that Selly had been crying on the bus. I asked what for and Selly told me, "no reason". I pressed on, thinking maybe one of the usual bullies had done something to her, " No, really, what happened?" That is when she went off the deep end, the water works started, and she told/blubbered out a tale of how she and another girl had been writing notes on a magic erase board and tossing it back and forth to each other. And how, another kid had caught it and said that Selly had written on there that Cina is a whore! ( Gasp! The plot thickens... ) "But I didn't Mama! I didn't do it!" ( think " I don't know nothing 'bout birthing no babies!" and you can grasp the tone).

   I believed Selly as this just isn't her style. But, now I was curious, so I simply asked, "OK, so what did you write?" ( Put your hip waders on, it's about to get deep! ) She replied, " I don't remember." Confused, I tell her that I find that hard to believe as this took place less than 20 minutes ago. I ask her again, what she had written.  She screeches, " I swear to GOD! I swear on my life! I don't remember!".

  Hubbawha? This kid must have been writing something really good... Maybe she knows the secret herbs and spices in KFC's Original Recipe! Or how man licks it really takes to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Roll Pop! Or why Chapstick tubes say "Cherry Flavored", when really the actual Chapstick is only cherry scented!  I have to know, so I ask again, "What did you really write? 'I can't remember' is not an option."

  Finally, after an hour and 45 minutes of my doing other things and checking back in to ask, with no results, I tell her, " Look Selly, whatever you wrote cannot possibly get you into more trouble than you already are for swearing to God on a lie or for lying period. But since you can't remember, I'll call your friend and see if she can remember." Ding! amnesia cured, just like that! Suddenly, she remembered everything she had written, everything her friend had written, the complete contents of the Dead Sea scrolls... Turns out it was mundane stuff about clothes and friends that are moving away etc... and I totally believed that. NOT! Nobody goes to the extent she did to protect boring information like that. I'll never know what was written on that board but it must have been really juicy. I was so frustrated by the whole drama/lying episode that I haven't even punished her yet. I think I am still in shock or something. I just know I hate being lied to, especially over stupid things... 

  

  

   

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