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There is no way a qualified school bus driver gets distracted by giggling girls. Nothing can penetrate the skills of a true professional, amirite? I reckon the teacher was jealous because she could never quite win over those girls & you had accomplished instant rapport. This is surely the reason the lists were full from then on.

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you know what? Yes. That is the answer. I'm going with that. Thank you.

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*bows

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I happen to be a fourth grade teacher and I've got to say I loved this. It was fun to get a chaperone's perspective.

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Amazing! I would love to hear YOUR stories! Did you have chaperones as incompetent and I was?

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You've got the perfect resume bullet point to serve as a volunteeer for the high school down hill ski club, in the dark with kids wearing helmets and big coats and even bigger attitudes. I made my husband volunteer.

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OMG Cindy that sounds like my absolute nightmare. High school kids, dark, skiing…the patrol would have to rescue me for sure.

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On the other hand, it has been great story fodder for my husband!

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OMG, you're SO BRAVE Shelly! I never had (a) the courage, (b) the calm, or (c) the cojones to chaperone a school trip! Thanks so much for rerunning this. It's new to me!

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Thank you for reading, Amanda! You may not have had the courage, but you had the BRAINS to not succumb to the classroom pressure!

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I’m so glad you re-shared this Shelly because it’s hilarious and ADORABLE! I had my first school chaperone experience last year and was allocated 6 kids and an epi-pen for one of them. My anxiety was THROUGH. THE. ROOF! 🤣

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Omg that is much too advanced! I would have left. Just walked right out.

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The 45 minute bus ride only to seek the same items from your front yard. Haha

I’m guessing those kids think you’re cooler than you know. 😉

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Can we be friends? I’m not even kidding. You are me. I am you. This was effing great.

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Andrea-- you are effing great. Which I guess means I am also effing great? Yes, we can be friends. But we cannot be chaperones together because surely the police would be called and this would be a formative memory for 63 nine-year-olds for many, many years to come.

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Ha! Oh, nobody will ever ask me to chaperone again. I’m barely allowed at the Board of Ed meetings anymore. Sometimes my mouth goes rogue.

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Offering up the baby picture was a huge unforced error. Hilarious though. I'm guessing this particular teacher did not invite you back to future trips....

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It was strange. Every time a field trip was brought up in my presence it was followed by, WE HAVE ENOUGH VOLUNTEERS THANK YOU!

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I can't tell you how happy it made me to see you used the name Radar. I made some kind of weird laugh-screech that I didn't even recognize as human. This was SO incredibly good, bestie! I think it's one of your best, and that's saying something considering your catalog has a lot of greats! Also, thank you so much for the shoutout!

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Dammit, I meant to single this out:

"What could have been communicated with a voice, was manifested as three 8.5 x 11 sheets stapled together. And speaking of three sheets, anyone have a little nip in their backpack?"

Brilliant!

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I mean, lesson learned! I know always have a little something tucked in my backpack when I head out to school! Wait, is this why I haven’t been asked back? Radar 4-ever!

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Maybe next time you can show them a jar full of his baby teeth. RADAR IS DA MAN!

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And then them HE RIPPED THESE OUT OF HIS OWN GUMS WHEN HE WAS JUST 4 MONTHS OLD!!!

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Get in line, girls! 😂

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😂😂😂 Field trips are my worst nightmare.

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I am still haunted by this one! My first and only!

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