We have 81 students in kindergarten this year.
On our playground is a tall, plastic, "smooth as a sheet of ice" slide that is amazingly popular with most of those children. After climbing the five hundred steps to the top, they fly down the slide at approximately five-hundred miles an hour.
What are the odds that one of those 81 five-year olds will kneel at the bottom of the slide to rest his head on the edge and peer to the top to watch his best friend to slide down?
AND, how fast can a teacher with bad knees run from one side of the playground to the other, watching this scenario unfold in the blink of an eye???
Not fast enough.
And, out of 81 children, what are the odds that Frank was directly involved?
We all know, however, that he is the one boy that defies the odds.
(I’m happy to report that no blood was shed. Well, not immediately.)
23 comments:
And in science today, we will see what happens when we mix gravity with natural selection...
wow. never a dull day...did you give out first aid certifications....
got the new king book...25 pages in...gonna be good..
Ouch! Good lesson on cause/effect?
Frank is my new hero.. love the twitter comment about the mustache too.
Ohh...Sadly I can say I've had the same exact experience though... Common sense is (amazingly) not one of my MANY talents.
go Frank go...lol
Frank : "AND for my next trick I shall saw Vodkamom ..in half !!"
80 kids : " YAYYYYY !!!! "
Vodkamom " O_o "
...80 kids AND Frank ??..its gonna be a loooong book !! lol , keep smiling... 81 kids is just WOW, you rock ! I wish NYC made you the new Chancellor. ;)
LOL at King of NYHacks !
My neck hurt just reading this .. I hope there was no actual collision and your knees are both working now?
That slide sounds scary ( says the sissy girl )
Of course!
80 little ones running about and 1 Frank .. what interesting days they create for you!!! Glad no one was hurt... xo HHL
i don't wanna a show about Shit my dad says. I want one about the adventures of Frank!!!
Leave it to Frank to make your day!
And the year is not quite half over with....
You have my sympathies!
Of course it was Frank! Who else could do this and come out in one piece?? This kid is a hoot and a half! I just love him, but I am so glad I'm not his mom OR his teacher!
Was Frank the slider or the slidee?
Frank? Sitting on the bottom with his head perched on the slide like a HUGE orange pumpkin.
I used to be terrified of the tall slide when I was a kid. I am still terrrified when I see my brother's kids on the tall slide.
See, I had to use 3 r's I'm so terrified! :O
PLEASE teach Frank to type soon. I am dying to read his blog. It sounds like his life is hard, surely it will get optioned into a book.
Of course. Frank.
Frank. Frank. Frank. *shaking head*
He might not learn the lessons, even when they come the hard way... BUT, at least, it gives US a good laugh :)
No matter what transpired, it sounds painful...and bloody.
oh, well go on and let him know that if two are on a seesaw and one gets off the other flies to the ground! I learned that one a LOOONNNG time ago! LOL 81 kids, wow!
Well, some boys are still laying their head on the slide when they are in their teens... always taking chances. Glad to hear there was not blood spurting in the air. HA!
Di
Those slides terrify me.
oh, those crazy, crazy kids...
i really hate all playground equipment, is that wrong? why outlaw tag? it's free and possibly brings about fewer injuries. (if you add ziplines into the equation, on the equipment side.)
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