Timing is Everything

This from the School Crossing Guard at the corner of Godin and Washington.

"This lady rolls her Volvo up Godin the in the wrong direction. I stop her and tell her that during school hours this street is one way and that one way is not the way she is going.

'She tells me, 'But it is Sunday.'

'Monday,' I tell her and she insists,

'If it is Monday, where are all the kids?'

'In the school.' and then I see her kids huddled and snickering in the back seat, 'All except your kids.'

She gives me a look like I'm from the Outer Limits, then looks at herslf in the mirror like she's a cast extra from the Lost Weekend.

"She turns to the kids, 'You knew, didn't you!' then just like out of another time, she yells, "Just wait 'til your father gets home!' and she wheels the car about and heads to the school drop off.

"Ya can't believe the things you see."