White Riot-The Clash

Shy Flamingo
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My feathers are Ruffled!

A day filled with excitement and parties and Halloween decorated cupcakes…this “holiday like” atmosphere is almost as good as it gets in a middle school…except for possibly Valentines Day. Students in costumes fill the halls as adult staff members prance around keeping order in ridiculous looking costumes that are purposely intended to either make the kids create hideous screams of fear or fall down laughing.

Yes my dear, this could just quite be “As Good As IT Gets”.

(Wait…RETHINK that statement…)

Yeah, yeah, sure…maybe after a Prozac and a lobotomy!
(Better)

Dressed in my “totally original” Pink Flamingo costume…(no not from the movie with the same title starring Divine…thank you very much…)
but creating my Very own Movie Moments again…I am thinking that this is totally my moment in the sun.

Kids are pointing, everyone smiles, co-workers are mingling as classes change in the hallway. I think that the biggest mistake made here on this day is that everyone is super-charged and pumped on sugar.
Somewhere in between the male Social Studies teacher in the red Incredible’s outfit and pair of tights and my new Math buddy in the Burger King costume slapping each other a high five…. the mood pops like a cherry.
A “not so pleasant” confrontation takes place between a few students and my afternoon soon transfers from idyllic childhood nostalgia to the wrong side of an episode of COPS.

"In this corner, White Ghost"
"In this corner, Bride in White"
-Ding Ding

Now most people realize a chick fight when they see it…and I have seen my share of chic fights…more to last a lifetime. This one must have been over a boy in a Frankenstein outfit, and to tell you the truth… he looks more like Frankenstein when we are NOT celebrating Halloween than on this particular day…if you know what I mean!

Rule #1: When chicks fight…you really need to get out of the way. Someone WILL lose ALL of their hair, and another will loose several pieces of the Press On Nails inside another’s “tanning boothed” bronze skin.

No one on the staff even flinched when they heard the hustle get started….I on the other hand… have an automatic reaction to SAVE the DAY.

I have always enjoyed the quote by John Lehman…
“Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.”

…so I dive right in there.

When all is said and done…no one is hurt…except for some egos…I have saved a student who is so absolutely skinny that I think she is concave, and a boy dressed like Frankenstein gains an even bigger head!
I have also lost half of my feathers in the commotion!

Hmmmm…..

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