My work is usually very…uneventful. This week the principal and assistant principal were both out one day. First thing that morning one of the teachers went to get a pack of crackers out of the vending machine. The vending machine is in the faculty lounge and not a very busy place until lunch time. She put her change in, the crackers fell, she put her hand in to get the crackers out and snap! The doors safety lock malfunctioned and shut on her arm. The more you pull and wiggle the tighter it gets. Nobody in sight, her hand starts to swell and turn colors. Luckily another teacher walks by and she yells for them. They can’t do anything, so the custodians are called. They come running with crow bars and have to pry it open. She gets her arm out and we have the machine removed from the building.
Lunch time comes and everyone is in the faculty room laughing and joking about what had happened that morning, when the guidance counselor comes in. A student had handed him a pack of ramen noodles and a microwave dish and asked him to heat it for her. Not knowing, he put the unopened pack in the dish and turned it on. The sparks start flying. The metal season packet is in the pack of noodles sparking away. If you know anything about ramen noodles you know that you open them put water in heat then add season packet, there you have it…soup. Needless to say, that got them all going again. His new nick name is sparky.
Later that afternoon, there was a principals meeting at our school where all the high school principals from the county come and meet. Joking around one of the teachers (about 50) starts pole dancing with the wire pole in the middle of one of the rooms. At that time the principals walk by and see…how embarrassing.
I must say that that had been the most exciting, comical day of work since I have been there.
