Monday, March 07, 2005
Mikey the Punk and the Blustery Day
Herds of drama llamas kept galloping through yesterday, so I couldn't really settle down to the kind of deep and serious thought you KNOW I need to create my posts....
Today didn't start off much better. Backstory: Mike has developed a Thing about his morning ride to school on the bus. This is partly because he has a Thing going on on his bus anyway. He sees his role as Special Appointed Assistant In Charge of Telling Everyone Else (including the driver) What To Do. Naturally, this has resulted in some unrest amongst the rank and file which gets Mike upset. Not to mention everyone else.
So for a while now he's been dawdling around in the morning deliberately missing the bus most of the time. That way he can ride in to school with Caro. The trouble with this is that it gets him on campus a good half hour before there are any adults outside to supervise. Since there is already a minor problem with some kids teasing Mike, it's not a good situation.
We came up with a penalty for missing the bus in the morning. Mike would have to wash one sink of dishes before he could have his "priviliges". This worked well for a while, but he got used to it and seemed to have decided it wasn't so bad. So we changed the rule. Miss the bus, walk to school. He thought this was a HORRIBLE idea, and that we were VERY mean! But oh well.
Today was the first day he decided to test and see if we really meant it. Not a good choice, because it's quite windy out there this morning. Still, he toughed it out sitting on the porch for about an hour and a half before deciding to trudge off to school.
*checks mirror* Yep. Still meanest.
Today didn't start off much better. Backstory: Mike has developed a Thing about his morning ride to school on the bus. This is partly because he has a Thing going on on his bus anyway. He sees his role as Special Appointed Assistant In Charge of Telling Everyone Else (including the driver) What To Do. Naturally, this has resulted in some unrest amongst the rank and file which gets Mike upset. Not to mention everyone else.
So for a while now he's been dawdling around in the morning deliberately missing the bus most of the time. That way he can ride in to school with Caro. The trouble with this is that it gets him on campus a good half hour before there are any adults outside to supervise. Since there is already a minor problem with some kids teasing Mike, it's not a good situation.
We came up with a penalty for missing the bus in the morning. Mike would have to wash one sink of dishes before he could have his "priviliges". This worked well for a while, but he got used to it and seemed to have decided it wasn't so bad. So we changed the rule. Miss the bus, walk to school. He thought this was a HORRIBLE idea, and that we were VERY mean! But oh well.
Today was the first day he decided to test and see if we really meant it. Not a good choice, because it's quite windy out there this morning. Still, he toughed it out sitting on the porch for about an hour and a half before deciding to trudge off to school.
*checks mirror* Yep. Still meanest.
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