In a couple of weeks we’ll be back to the following at 3:25 in the afternoon—
Me: How was school?
Them: Fine.
Me: Did your lawyer tell you to keep your answers brief?
Them: Wasn’t funny in 2019 either.
—but right now, first week of school, I’m getting a lot of unsolicited info. Want to know about the new cell phone policy in the Minneapolis Public Schools? No one at our house likes it, though for different reasons:
Them: But, like, if there’s a code red active shooter situation, wouldn’t you like me to be able to call you?
Me: Call me? You’d be checking TikTok. Just like in math class.
My high-school junior said she overheard a freshman boy ask his buddy, “Did you have any idea there’d be no recess?”
Walking toward the front door on my first day back at school, I passed a lot of parents headed the other direction. One, a 30ish mom, pushed a baby stroller with one hand while using the other to dab her eyes with a Kleenex. I’m guessing she has, in addition to the baby, a nervous kindergartner. They are so cute plodding along the sidewalk, kind of serious looking, backpack where it should be up on their shoulders and still scraping the ground behind them.
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