Cherokee_Mountaincat
May 4, 2010, 5:24 PM
Anyone ever have a day like this: No matter what will go wrong Does? Its one of those days when ya just should have stayed in bed, pulled the covers up over your head and slept the whole friggin day away?
1. Try having the electricity go out while you're stuck in an elevator with a panicy, clostrophobic, disabled student who has to pee like a mother fucker and who wets herself 2 seconds before the power comes back on. And this is after she has a panic attack and is screaming at the top of her lungs to be let out of the elevator because she's ConVinced that its closing in and we'll both be squished to death.
2. Try taking your student in his wheelchair from one building to another and you're late for a lecture. It begins to down pour, and one wheel on said wheelchair decides to seize up and not move ANYwhere....I cant move the damn chair, and the student is too big for me to pick up and carry, and it is now hailing and pouring at the same time. I had to get one of the big Security guards to come pick up the student, who nearly drops him when he slipped on the hail and threw his back out....
3. We get to class and find out we have a Sub Teacher who has no idea of the lesson plans for that day, has no book for the lesson, and who sent off the student aides because he thought he "Could handle things just fine" and didnt realize that the class consisted of disabled students. I am the only scribe and mobility aide in the damn room, and there are 12 students who have no, or limited use of their hands. So he panics and decides to pop in a movie for the 2 hour class and have the students do a paper on the movie. What he popped in was an Amateur porn movie that someone had left in the machine when they borrowed it last. Sooo, class was cancelled and we had the chore of getting 12 students Back to the cafeiteria because Their aides werent to come get them for 2 hours. Back out in the rain and hail we went.
4. Now here's the clincher: I get 'my' charges on thier buses, to their parents cars, in their "going home vans" and finally board my bus for the trek home, and I cannot wait. All I want are some dry clothes, a hot shower, some food and Maybe a good stiff drink...lol
All is going well, we're heading home and hit a slight traffic jam inside the tunnel half-way home. Its ok,,its dark, noisy, ect. But I close my eyes to relax a minute. All of a sudden theres a loud BAM!!! sounding like a Howitser going off and the bus lurches to one side as the driver slams on the brakes, throwing people off their seats and sending panic all thru the friggin bus.. There's screaming, people jumping up in confusion, and there is chaos all over the fukn place. Turns out we blew a tire, and the bus swerved into the tunnel wall going 20 miles an hour. No one was hurt, but the bus's door was jammed up against the wall and couldnt be opened. All I can do is think "Lord, take me now. Just take me now"
So here it is 2 hours later, I am home, showered and still wet haired. But I have my bathrobe on, a towel around all this hair and have that stiff drink in front of me. I have Pizza coming, and intend to do nothing the rest of the damn night, but pray that tomorrow is a better day. Hope the lil fucker doesnt hafta go thru the tunnel to get here.......sigh
Cat, hermiting out
1. Try having the electricity go out while you're stuck in an elevator with a panicy, clostrophobic, disabled student who has to pee like a mother fucker and who wets herself 2 seconds before the power comes back on. And this is after she has a panic attack and is screaming at the top of her lungs to be let out of the elevator because she's ConVinced that its closing in and we'll both be squished to death.
2. Try taking your student in his wheelchair from one building to another and you're late for a lecture. It begins to down pour, and one wheel on said wheelchair decides to seize up and not move ANYwhere....I cant move the damn chair, and the student is too big for me to pick up and carry, and it is now hailing and pouring at the same time. I had to get one of the big Security guards to come pick up the student, who nearly drops him when he slipped on the hail and threw his back out....
3. We get to class and find out we have a Sub Teacher who has no idea of the lesson plans for that day, has no book for the lesson, and who sent off the student aides because he thought he "Could handle things just fine" and didnt realize that the class consisted of disabled students. I am the only scribe and mobility aide in the damn room, and there are 12 students who have no, or limited use of their hands. So he panics and decides to pop in a movie for the 2 hour class and have the students do a paper on the movie. What he popped in was an Amateur porn movie that someone had left in the machine when they borrowed it last. Sooo, class was cancelled and we had the chore of getting 12 students Back to the cafeiteria because Their aides werent to come get them for 2 hours. Back out in the rain and hail we went.
4. Now here's the clincher: I get 'my' charges on thier buses, to their parents cars, in their "going home vans" and finally board my bus for the trek home, and I cannot wait. All I want are some dry clothes, a hot shower, some food and Maybe a good stiff drink...lol
All is going well, we're heading home and hit a slight traffic jam inside the tunnel half-way home. Its ok,,its dark, noisy, ect. But I close my eyes to relax a minute. All of a sudden theres a loud BAM!!! sounding like a Howitser going off and the bus lurches to one side as the driver slams on the brakes, throwing people off their seats and sending panic all thru the friggin bus.. There's screaming, people jumping up in confusion, and there is chaos all over the fukn place. Turns out we blew a tire, and the bus swerved into the tunnel wall going 20 miles an hour. No one was hurt, but the bus's door was jammed up against the wall and couldnt be opened. All I can do is think "Lord, take me now. Just take me now"
So here it is 2 hours later, I am home, showered and still wet haired. But I have my bathrobe on, a towel around all this hair and have that stiff drink in front of me. I have Pizza coming, and intend to do nothing the rest of the damn night, but pray that tomorrow is a better day. Hope the lil fucker doesnt hafta go thru the tunnel to get here.......sigh
Cat, hermiting out