another custodian

June 11th, 2006:

So I’m down there playing basketball after nearly rupturing a certain part of me that’s involved in procreation, I think you know what that is. (if not - write me for an explanation)

I’m shooting away - and a guy unlocks the gate and comes in to check the grounds. I stop him and ask him if he is leaving the gate unlocked. He says that he can leave it open while he’s there, but has to lock it when he leaves.

“Well, who told you to do that?” I asked him knowingly (this is beginning to sound like the Monty Python cheese shop sketch)

“The Prinicipal”
Hmmm…the same Prinicipal who bursts through the gate several times a week because he knows its open, apparently.

Then, the kind custodian said he would leave the gate unlocked when he left if I would click the padlock shut when I exited. (He also said he would mention this to the school prinicipal after I assured him the prinicipal had claimed it was always open.)

I agreed. He was a gentleman and I would reciprocate.

PS - yes I did lock the damn gate when I left, what do you think? That I’m a school administrator or something?

PPS - another interesting thing the custodian said was that the gate to the tennis courts is left unlocked. Now, that gate is on the other side of the school. You have to walk across the entire school grounds to get to the basketball courts from there. If the concern is about vandalism - why are you encouraging people to cross the entire campus?

Another thought: Tennis is to rich white kids as basketball is to _______ [fill in favorite lower income minority group here]