One of the preschools I went to was a giant room consisting of a bunch of different stations where you do random shit like color or play in sand or build stuff with blocks. I found one of the stations particularly puzzling—the bubble-blowing station. It wasn’t the traditional kind where you get a plastic bottle and wand. This station consisted of several large tubs filled with soap and water and the children were given straws with which to blow bubbles inside the tubs. I think nowadays, you couldn’t have a station like that because some dumb kid would unwittingly suck instead of blow and get a stomach ache, causing the mother to sue the preschool for millions of dollars in damages (because preschools are really cash cows that can easily cater to jerks with a sense of entitlement). The preschool would close, the baby-sitters, er—I mean teachers, would get fired and never be able to work in the US again. The building would remain abandoned for years, a foul, blistering scab in an otherwise beautiful neighborhood. Children would spend years in therapy, exploring their feelings regarding the sharp disruption in their formative education. Lives ruined, communities destroyed, the world tarnished… all because some dumb school can’t shell out the extra few dollars on plastic bottles and wands.
gus away from the metroplaza says:
Look, there was no sign saying the liquid was harmful if swallowed. How was I supposed to know? Er…wait, maybe there was and I was too young to read it. No wait, they did’t offer it in espanol so all we could do was sue.
May 20, 2007, 2:08 pmriceowl03 says:
Yes, because clearly, the blame for this nightmare scenario rests squarely on the shoulders of the school for not budgeting in jar/wand bubble supplies.
And not people like Gus! Como se dise “Lionel Hutz e Dr. Nick Riviera” en Espanol?
May 21, 2007, 7:39 am