Show V Now that this thle Billy business ofa ol ot ota a teachers teacher's strike for tor more pay I seems to be over the hill there may be some angles angloo which are worth a chuckle or two t If Ir the first day of or school had rolled around and no school what a scream of or anguish from devoted mothers who were tickled tickled ed d pink to have the kids home hom last Jast spring spring but but have been counting counting countIng count- count Ing the endless days until they were back in the care of or loving teachers this fall Alphonse Mother would wall get out of bed and go to school What no school Then go get a job or go visit your Gramma or go take a fishing trip to Nicaragua or go to the pool hall All summer long Ive I've been looking forward to this day and here you are are you big lazy hulk of six years still lying in bed on the first day of school Out Mother c could o 0 u l 1 d moan if U you spend one more day lying around the house talking talk ing lug on the phone playing records eating your head off leaving the dishes for me while you patch your Bikini Ill I'll snatch you bald Go somewhere Get married Ive I've always wanted a year old bride in the family Take your choice Go to school or go on a honey honey- moon OutlAnd Out OutlAnd And then of or course there are all the lovely sweet patient ladles ladies in the school lunch room They're on the Job They'll get paid whether they serve raisin salad with dandelion sauce or not Gosh It would be kind of nice to see those sweet little faces peering over the counter and saying Gosh not hamburgers ham burgers again Yes and the kid who always wants to trade his potatoes for apples or marbles What Ill I'll miss most is the girl who sells sella her plate full for I a dime and goes over to the coiner cornor cor coi ner nor for tor a coke She simplY wouldn't be caught dead eating at the school lunch Time to spruce up girls Here Her comes the superintendent Weve We've prepared all this food tood Just a as aswell aswell well help him eat it Think of ot the athletic coach who took a chance and signed a contract either real or imag imag- inary Did you ever try to bounce a football off ort the gymnasium wall wal just to keep in shape Or the Ag teacher gonna feed all these pigs he bellers Nobody told me last spring that Id I'd have 40 shoats 15 three goats to mother moth moth- er In the basement and living room until kids showed up to claim em Caretakers roam through the halls searching for imaginary spitballs to pick up and discard No paper wads wad no lost caps and coats no broken windows You know says on one going over this same floor with this brush which is already spotless my conscience hurts hurt me Sort of Bu Bug not rii much I After Atter all all I dont don't belong t to the Do you 1 His Its coworker worker tails falls to answer He is sound asleep behind the kitchen hen stove in the lunch room lIe He is surrounded by empty plates Most pitiful object of ot all is fe i Pappy husband of ot the unemployed ed teacher who is out on strike Now yew Jest do this to tome tome tome me Maw mumbles Pappy For 15 years now you been gittin up at dawn the fire on breakfast gitin glUn the kids up and and you didn't git it done last night cuz you set up to 2 am a.m. gradin them fool papers me my ham and alga and cakes and coffee shush and tay my coffee corfee shush and holdin my coffee cortee cup shush til Ul I wakes up and quits to hold it it And then you hauls all the kids kidi to school while I goes back to to sleep And now you mean youre you're gonna give all this up all this simple togetherness and won and and stuff JIt to go back In the tannin leather You go goto goto goto to work at 10 and come home at 4 and earn eam twice as much you you got got no pride gonna head up the PTA P F TA Who's gonna get our head tead kid out of ot the fourth grade where hes he's been for three years Who's gonna pay the bills I mean if you say youre you're gonna quit youre you're gonna keep all that easy money who's gonna pay the Wile bills Are you gonna let our kids starve Just be be- cuz CUI they aint gonna go to school After Atter all aU these years of ot livin and tender kindness and care I bin givin the kids are you gonna give all your time to that foreman down at the tannin leather factory fac tac tor tory Enough of highly Imaginary treatise If w We knew w of any such people we wouldn't men tion them Hut But we have to men menn mention tion TillS THIS because we have learned that some people have no sense of humor Among the best betit friends we have are Keith Bailey Lou Christensen Ralph Chipman Fred Free Winters We hope that all aU these troubles are completely imaginary and that school will open as always alway on schedule We know U it will And anyhow If It today's kl kids are areas areas areas as smart mart as a J I thought I was when I was waa theIr heir age they can cango cango go jo without education for a couple af ot years to let the teachers catch u Mac up-Mac Jp Mac |