The Dream

Part of my dream this morning was about school again. I was doing recess duty outdoors and I looked up and a lot of the kids were perched on the window ledges along the back of the building. Some were on the first floor level and some on the second floor. I was afraid that someone would fall and be hurt, and at best, there was a problem because they shouldn’t be doing that at all! I started to yell at them, I was deep in the playground, quite far away from them, that they should get down from there right away. I yelled and yelled and they just sat there. Then the principal came out and I thought he would make them get down. But he just stood there on the stairs and didn’t say anything. I yelled to him, then, that he should get those boys down from the windows. He still did nothing. I walked up to him then and he said he couldn’t hear what I was saying. I figured that if he couldn’t hear, the boys hadn’t heard me either. No wonder they didn’t move. So I talked to them now that I was up close and told them that there were two reason I wanted them to get down from there, one was because of safety, and come to think of it, the second reason was also because of safety. I was thinking that they might fall to the ground and get hurt, or possible break the window behind them and get hurt that way. But I didn’t explain. Then I told them that they looked like a row of fat birds perched on the window ledge. (They were bundled into bulky snow clothes.) They thought this was hilariously funny and while laughing about it, they got down from their inappropriate perches. I was thinking how often humor will ease a situation and solve a problem. I felt good about getting them off the ledges without any accidents and everyone was laughing when it was over.

Posted by: NJ on 1/18/2006 10:42:25 AM , 4 comments