Shaping Young Minds

As I think I mentioned in my last post, I helped conduct our annual summer assistant safety training over the weekend. We ask the kiddies to give up their Saturday and as a result we end up giving up ours too. This might not always be the case, our Quebec counterparts rolled dice and asked their team if they were available on the Friday to do the training instead and somehow they all were. I'm not sure how the question was phrased but it worked out for those scamps. They didn't lose any time. On this side of the imaginary line dividing our two lands, almost separate countries once, we lost a day of rest. But it was worth the effort I think. It will save us hours when the kids start in earnest and we get to "bond" as a team before we're off and running. I think I should have a good group this summer based on early interactions. It feels like I won't have to worry about things getting to quiet anyways. The two girls that I hired appear to be boisterous and full of energy. I'll see if I can't work them hard enough that they lose that luster for life like everyone else does. I'm kidding, I make the job bearable if not fun, so my past crops of children have informed me. Sorry, adolescents. I still count it as being adolescent if you're in your early twenties. Is that right? Not important. The moral of the story is that we got through all the material, got our respirator fit tests done, our driver training filed away, and had a good time doing it. At our dinner to cap off the day, it was mysteriously my birthday....again. That seems to happen three or four times a year. I'm getting to the point where I dread the sound of people clapping and chanting in a restaurant. At least I get the fee of a bowl of ice cream to soothe my public humiliation. I'm sure the staff loves it. Several videos were shot but I don't suspect any made it online anywhere, naturally I can't confirm due to my acute lack of social media vigour. We bowled afterwards and I was able to get the pitchers filled with Beau's Lug Tread for most of the night. The kids licked that stuff up at an alarming rate. Luckily BDP, the perpetrator of the birthday prank footed that bill. The day seemed to average out as a success. We'll have feedback for the driving school we tried but other than that it all seemed to be good. I'm still collecting feedback though and can apply a stamp to it later this week. I'll have to plot a scheme to get that Saturday back in the future.