The most bizarre thing happened at work today:<\/p>\n
A fifth grader was chatting with me at my desk when another fifth grader came up to borrow a pencil.\u00c2\u00a0 As the second student was digging through the pencil bin, she laid down the small fish squirt toy that she had been carrying.\u00c2\u00a0 The first student, still chatting with me, absent-mindedly picked up the squirt toy and squeezed.\u00c2\u00a0 Pfffffitttt – a squirt of liquid hit me full in the face, right next to my mouth.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Ewwwwwwwww!”\u00c2\u00a0 I cried, wiping the liquid off my face.<\/p>\n
“What was in that?” the first student asked.<\/p>\n
“Oh, I dunno, just some old bathwater I guess,” said the owner of the squirt toy (who has younger siblings, it should be noted).<\/p>\n
Needless to say, as soon as I could extract myself I ran down to the staff room and washed my face.\u00c2\u00a0 Hopefully I won’t have broken out in a weird rash tomorrow morning or contracted some dread disease.\u00c2\u00a0 Blech blech blech.\u00c2\u00a0 The things they DON’T tell you about what it means to be a children’s librarian.<\/p>\n
And, for the record, I also got sneezed on today by a sixth grader.\u00c2\u00a0 Twice.\u00c2\u00a0 Good thing I take vitamins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The most bizarre thing happened at work today: A fifth grader was chatting with me at my desk when another fifth grader came up to borrow a pencil.\u00c2\u00a0 As the second student was digging through the pencil bin, she laid down the small fish squirt toy that she had been carrying.\u00c2\u00a0 The first student, still … Continue reading Ewwwwwwwww…<\/span>