Another one joins the flock (Part II)

[Mike85]

Wife came by to drop of the kids. I was almost dreading a conversation, thanks to the small funk my old friend accidentally put me in by asking me to go over the whole story.

I was on the phone, talking to a school board member from my former district. She was upset that I was leaving (her son wanted to have me for his AP Bio teacher in two years) and wanted me to 'shoot straight' about why I left. So, I did. Gotta say, it was nice to have a school board member call me at home to beg me to come back (not gonna happen tho...).

Got school board member off the phone. Got my head into the "act if" mode, and sonuvagun - wife was in a good mood and wanted to tell me about the comedy of errors at my oldest son's soccer practice. Apparently, youngest son had a mishap in the playground, then as she was dealing with that, she witnessed some poor little girl fly off the swings and hit her head, so she helped with that and got blood all over her hands, AND THEN she looked up to see my oldest son's coach helping him off the field. She rinsed her hands off with water and antiseptic gel and brought the youngest kid over to oldest kid's scene. All kids wound up OK, but, WOW , what a sequence. The way she told it was funny, too.

She made the point of asking me, as someone who has had bloodborne pathogen training (I used to do AIDS research), if her cleanup was adequate. I assured her that it probably was - that alcohol-based gel kills quite effectively.

She had to run, but gave me a big hug and a kiss before she left.

Weird. The old friend puts me in a funk... and the MLC wife gets me out of it?