Gimme Back My Bunnies!

I couldn't imagine working somewhere where fun was not a part of my day.  Working with kids is a constant flux of control and freedom, discipline and praise, success and failure, seriousness and yes, fun as well.  The same can be said about co-workers (not the flux part, but the fun part).  I have been lucky to have taught my whole career in two schools within the same small community.  With very few exceptions, I've taught alongside talented, professional, and fun characters... I mean colleagues.

Doug Jeffrey, fellow teacher, friend, and a character, was constantly hitting us up for Lions Club charity activities.  After many years in a row, it was once again time for "The Lions Club Chocolate Bunnies Pre-Easter Sales Push", and Doug was quite the high pressure salesman.  After weeks of his bunny pushing, Neil MacTavish and I decided to end it all; so after school we stole all his chocolate bunnies from the staff room and hid them in the VP's office.   

We had barely exited the office when we heard a bellow from the staff room.  "Where are my bunnies?!"

Neil and I bolted in different directions.  I looked back, and there was Doug barrelling down the hall after me!  "Gimme back my bunnies!"

Heading down the hallway, I quickly decided that my best bet was to not get cornered in my room but to double back somehow.  Turning left through the common entrance that my class shared with Carol Parkin's grade 6 class, I cut left and dashed through her room.  Halfway through, I spotted Carol looking at me from her desk, and also a shocked parent, turned around in her chair, watching me careen through the aisle of desks.  "Sorry," I blurted out.

Just then, Doug, hot on my heels entered the room.  "Where are they?! Farrer, gimme back my bunnies!  I want them now!" he roared as he raced after the departing me.

Later, returning to my room I saw Carol was alone.  "Sorry, I didn't know you had a parent.   Hope we didn't throw off your interview."

"It was fine,"  Carol explained.  "After you two left, I just answered her questioning look with, 'We have a lot of fun here at AV Graham'.'"

And, yes, so we did.