One
of my favorite sources of things to talk about in a blog posting is the surpassingly
odd aspects of life today that are thrust into the limelight via the wacky
filler items you can find on many of the major on line news sites like CNN and indeed
dear old www.Fredericksburg.com . For example this headline from CNN.com fairly
begs further examination: “Jumping sturgeon whacks jet-skier” Maybe I read articles
like that for the same reason I’ll pause on the Jerry Springer show when I’m
channel surfing but I really want to see the fish that can take out a guy on a
jet ski.
It’s
not what anyone would call a major news site but in her blog posting today on Blue
Ridge Blog, Marie
Freeman talking about the new school year in Watauga County North Carolina and says
there is a new rule at Watauga County High School limiting students to 39 bathroom
trips per semester. She predicts they’ll give up on that within two weeks. I
give it one week: one day to realize the impracticality of it and four days to
figure out how to back off the idea without formally admitting what a knot
headed idea it was to begin with.
Who
will keep track of how often the kids go? Will there be potty monitors with
clip boards in the hall? Maybe they will print and distribute 39 bathroom
passes to each student, thus creating an active black market for them and when
that gets going can the counterfeit potty pass be far behind? Will there be a
roll over provision for unused passes from one semester to another like unused
cell phone minutes?
Who
in the school administration came up with this idea and then had the nerve to
propose it in front of the other school officials? Boone is way out in the
mountains of western North Carolina
but I’m surprised we didn’t hear the hoots and howls of laughter all the way up
here.
North Carolina
Hilarious, Jim! Reminds me of my very short stint at GEICO where I was informed by a 13-year senior employee while attending my orientation that she was allowed six minutes to use the bathroom. I thought this odd, but stated I felt I could probably "do my business" in six minutes until she corrected me and said that was what was allowed for her entire shift! And Big Brother keeps accurate track over there because workers must log in and off their headsets. I resigned after four days of "orientation."After all, what does one have to look forward to if she only had six minutes after 13 years of tenure? Hilarious? I think not!
Posted by: Jane | 11 August 2006 at 10:18 AM
What happens if you take 40?
Posted by: World Peace Religion | 26 August 2006 at 07:26 AM
How, exactly, did they determine the average student needs only 39 annual bathroom trips? Was there some argument between 38 and 39? Did they do scientific studies to come up with that number?
What an idiotic plan!
Posted by: rhonda | 31 August 2006 at 11:59 AM
Lets just get some more rules to make these kids break. Holy cow...what if one of them has a severe case of the poohs? What about gals with their monthlies? Geesh!
Posted by: Susan | 05 September 2006 at 09:38 AM