Okay…get your minds
out of the gutter. I’m talking protractors. For those of you who are lucky
enough not to have a fifth grade back-to-school supply list, protractors are
those half-moon shaped thingys that kids use in math and come back to you at
the end of the year snapped in half and covered in glue stick crud. My husband
thought I was referring to the thing that looks like a nutcracker with a sharp
point at one end and a place for a pencil at the other.
“That’s a compass,” I told him.
“Compasses are for
navigation,” he replied.
“Then you can
navigate the back-to-school list.”
Oh how I love those
back-to-school lists! Every year, they are more and more like treasures hunts.
This year, our list includes things like: green
two pocket folders and marble
notebook, must be 8 ½ inch size.
And of course, the wonderful 4-inch protractor.
I ran around Staples,
Rite-Aid, Target and CVS like a nut trying to get a four inch protractor. Every
place carries only the 6-inch kind. But the list said: must be four inches. I started imagining the terrible moment when
my daughter’s teacher asks all the kids in the room to whip out their 4 inches
and my daughter pulls out her six. What kind of mother am I? What next? Am I
going to forget to cut the crusts off my daughter’s bread?
Well, at least I didn’t
fail the green two-pocket folder test. I almost couldn’t find a folder in Kelly
green. I was about to settle for a teal-colored one (sort of green-ish?) when I
found one in grass green. Social services would certainly have been after me
then…
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