Forecast: A Crazy Front Attached To An Area Of Peer Pressure Moving In Will Bring Wild Behavior

by Leslie

The weather has finally caught up with the season ’round these parts and the high temperatures we’d been experiencing have been cut in half.

Good-bye short pants. Hello long-sleeve t-shirts. Oh, how I’ve missed you!

I couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief as the mercury began to contract in my thermometer. Seeing that much red this far into October just fed my recurring nightmare of sitting on my rooftop with Julia, Dave, my parents, Clyde the dog and 12 cats, waiting to be rescued because I’m surrounded by ocean. Sometimes it’s because of a deep impact meteor, but usually it’s global warming. On a rare ocassion, we’re trapped in the basement because the supervolcano under Yellowstone erupted.

Most people I’ve spoken to have welcomed the Fall chill right along with me. But the kids? The weather change seemed to have flipped a switch in them.

Yesterday at Kindergym, it was mass hysteria. There were children running and screaming, often in circles, with arms waving and tongues hanging out of their faces. They howled and kicked. They spun out. There was a great deal of fake falling down.

I watched the shy girl in class - the one who has never spoken a word - hang from her mother’s arm, kick and scream, “Nooooooo!”

I watched another, normally well-behaved child, slap her mother in the face for telling her to wait her turn.

Julia, being a pacifist, mostly picked her nose.

I watched the horror unfold from above the gym floor in my balcony seat. It looked like 28 Days Later without the blood.

Once class was over, the kids stumbled away from their carpet squares, briefly distracted by the ink of positive reinforcement the teacher had stamped on their hands. Parents seized the moment, scrambling to zip jackets and tie shoes. We shook our heads as we herded the kids out the door telling each other it must be the weather that’s made these kids so crazy.

I mean, it has to be the weather. That or rabies.

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Comments

8 Cool Kids Came To Play

Karly on October 12, 2007 1:29 pm
I’m the first commentor! (commenter?)

I find it highly amusing that while the other children were running around all crazy like, Julia was picking her nose. I love Julia.
mackeydoodle on October 12, 2007 3:58 pm
“28 Days Later Without the Blood”!!!!!
LMAO I love your visuals!
Chris H on October 12, 2007 8:02 pm
Julia and Griffin would get on like a house on fire… Griffin is always picking his nose…. and biting his toe/hand nails….. it’s an obsession with him I’m sure! I prefer summer any day mate, nice and warm, less clothes to clean, never having to use the clothes dryer…. masses of reasons! It’ does not get too hot here though.
susiej on October 13, 2007 8:03 pm
It could be the moon, you know. Freezing, relatively speaking, here too.
Jerseygirl89 on October 13, 2007 10:03 pm
Julia is so cool. Ironflower and Lovebug run in circles and scream just about everyday.
Daddy Forever on October 14, 2007 9:52 pm
That’s one of the reason I don’t Fall, Winter, and early Spring. The kids are trapped indoors and they go wild from being caged.
Toni on October 16, 2007 5:54 pm
I love the cool weather too… mostly because long sleeves and pants cover a myriad of physical faults.
Jen in MI on October 16, 2007 7:03 pm
It’s the weather. Really. Being a teacher for all these years the kids always go wild with a seasonal change like that. Or maybe it’s just Halloween coming up.