I The Frank Kelley Roast - Wilmington Town Crier

PAGE SS-8 WEDNESDAY/THURSDAY AUGUST 10,11 2005
Barely a month has gone by
when visions of lazy days spent
frolicking with children were in
our minds at the onset of sum-
mer vacation. Now, the
unavoidable has snuck up on us,
;'iving way to "back to school"
sa'e flyers and commercials.
/'is a kid. I always looked for-
ward to going back to school. A
new year, a fresh start. This
would be the year of my schol-
arly career.
Prepare to launch!
Silver Lake CanoeCaptain Angela Spada and her
mates Rachael Spada and Lindsay Hillier get an
assist from (L to R behind canoe) Lindsay's mom
Kelly, and her sister and
brother, Jordan and Aaron.
Quiet casting.
Alex Bean, 11-1/2, of North Reading,
is getting some extra fishing in, at North Reading's
Ipswich River park before school starts.
Crayons
by Steve Bjork
There were important deci-
sions to be made. In elemen-
tary school, the single most
important school item was
crayons. Depending upon
which box you showed up with
on the first day of school could
mean social suicide or popular-
ity stardom.
Come in with a box of eight
and you may as well consider
yourself picked last for kickball.
Who only needs eight crayons?
They'll be worn down to the nub
before you finish a map of the
United States.
In my opinion, the sixteen
box has about the same status
as the eight box, only slightly
better. You'll probably have to
replenish by Christmas, which
is handy for Santa, as these slip
easily into a stocking.
The safe bet was always the
twenty-four, or if you were
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forty-eight was a bit bulky, and
didn't fit into a desk that easily.
But, the struggle to get the
math book out when it was
lodged in horizontally alongside
that forty-eight box was well
worth it. It was a proud day
when classmates humbly asked
to borrow the elusive "copper"
crayon amiss in their small
box.
Then, without warning, right
in the middle of the school year,
someone showed up with a box
of ninety-six. Ninety-six beauti-
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summer
ful shades of wax sticks. I never
saw anything like it. Who could
compete with "cornflower" or
"goldenrod?" Not me. All of a
sudden it was as if I had a
hodgepodge of broken blue, red,
yellow and green.
Those who followed suit com-
ing in with their great big boxes
of crayons were clearly showing
off. They were missing the point
of crayon etiquette. Didn't they
realize that having more than
forty-eight represented non-
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Having that many colors to
choose from took away valu-
able learning time. Fussing
over the thirteen shades of
blue was clearly a distraction.
A distraction, frankly, that I
didn't need, nor want.
Some tried to console me by
asking if I wanted to borrow a
special shade, or sharpen my
flat crayons in their fancy
dancy sharpener located in the
back of their monstrous box. I
declined. I didn't need their
pity. I had more important
things to focus on. Like frac-
tions.
It seems that I have passed
on this same obsession to at
least one of my children.
Before the end of school in
June, I was told by my future
second grader that we needed
to get to the store for crayons
for the upcoming school year.
Apparently, there is now a
120 count box of crayons. He
has lovingly gazed at it for
more than a month now, with
the same promise of success in
school that I fondly remember.
I'm going to have to think
about this one. It could bring
about serious implications.
What would the teacher
think? The other mothers who
help out in the classroom, they
would certainly make assump-
tions. This will take some
careful thought. Not only will
he be judged, but I will be to.
Once we figure that out, it's
on to sneakers. Aside from
crayons, it's the other single
most important decision for
the year. It can make or break
a school career.
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