Today I was at work.. like always. I work at a daycare, so I help look after little kids.
Eddie wore his green pants again. I told him last time that they made him look emo, especially with his gelled dark brown hair, but apparently he didn't get the message. Maybe his parents didn't have anything else to give him to wear, because he's been drawing skulls and stick figures on his clothes a lot recently. With washable markers though. So maybe his parents just didn't have time to do his laundry.
Mona couldn't come today. Her dad called and said she had a fever, then demanded to know if there were any other kids who sounded or looked suspiciously sick at the daycare. I hate paranoid parents. They should know that it's not our problem whether their kid gets contaminated by other kids. So I said, "No, everyone else is perfectly healthy. Remember to wait until Mona is completely healed before you bring her back, or else she'll be the one other parents will be complaining about." Then I hung up. Elise, Mona's best friend, ran up to me and asked where Mona was. I said Mona wanted to stay home because she needed a break from her best friend. Elise cried then begged me to pick her up. When I did, she coughed then sneezed in my face. Twice.
Lady Gaga's "Alejandro" music video was supposed to come out today. I kept checking the computer several times an hour to see if it was up. I work a 9-5 shift. At 4:00, it still wasn't up and by then most kids had gone home. The other worker went to change two messy diapers so I got bored and watched another Lady Gaga music video called "LoveGame." Some of the kids came over and watched with me. They said they liked it, and I told them that people who liked Lady Gaga's music were called "little monsters." At first they got scared but when I made claws with my hands and showed them how fun it was to pretend to be a monster, they all laughed and sang and clawed at each other.
Soon, the other worker came back, and it was getting late, so I turned off the computer. Not being able to check if "Alejandro" was up made me nervous and antsy, and the time tik-tokked by slowly. Lisa's mom and Juan's grandpa were the last to come. As Lisa and Juan ran to fetch their jackets, they made faces at each other. Lisa's mom told Lisa to stop. Then Lisa grabbed Juan and started dancing like Lady Gaga. Juan's grandpa glared at Lisa's mom and whisked Juan away.
Lisa's mom asked me what the kids did today. I said, "They played with building blocks and then made apple sauce. We read 'One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish' and let them take a nap. Then they played with each other, like always." She nodded and asked if they watched any videos or ate any candy. I said no. I don't think she believed me because Lisa giggled at this point and started humming "LoveGame."
"Let's play a hmm-game, disco stick!" I heard Lisa shout as the doors closed behind them. How annoying, I thought, as I shut down the lights and locked all the windows. If I ever had a kid, I would never, ever send them to daycare. Little kids can get corrupted too early here. I would never let a stranger watch my child for even a second, let alone change his diapers. In my humble opinion, it is only under the hawk-like supervision of their parents where children can manage to endure in their innocence and escape corruption. At least the bad kind.
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