On Friday afternoon, Tringa & I were scheduled to go to school so the boys could read to us. Early Friday morning I got an e-mail from the teacher we work with saying he had completely forgotten about the yearbook signing party. It was scheduled during our reading time. He suggested we cancel.
Little did he know how a dog trainer’s mind works. On Thurs I had brought an ink stamp pad to work for one of my co-workers. She’s in a cast & we needed to get ink stamps of Weber, the clinic cat, so he could “sign” her cast. The stamp pad was right in front of me.
I posted back suggesting we didn’t have to read. In fact, if the boys wanted, Tringa could stop by and sign their year books, too.
He thought that’d be good.
We walked into the school office to sign in. There was LOUD music playing in the gym. Another teacher was on the announcement system telling the students they had to remain in their seats for another 3 minutes. They would be released, just sit tight. Then he found out we were there to sign yearbooks. So he announced “Ky is in the building”.
Oops.
Ky had visited this school for 4 years. Tringa’s only been going a few months. Most people there are still making the name mix-up. Ky is much easier to say than Tringa, too.
Little did this teacher know, Ky really was in the building. Well, some of his hair anyway. Tringa has a braid of Ky’s hair in the medicine bag she wears on her collar while we visit.
So Tringa & I made our way to the gym before the kids were released to the party. There was a live band on stage. It was LOUD! The floor vibrated.
I placed Tringa on a towel near the back of the room. And in came the kids. THE ENTIRE SCHOOL. It was great. She was a trooper. She signed lots of yearbooks. Yearbooks of students we’d never even seen before.
There was popcorn and pop. Music and games.
The only part she didn’t like is that I wouldn’t let her get up. Black dog paw prints all over the gym floor wasn’t a good idea in my mind.
When I was sure everyone who wanted Tringa to sign their book had done so, I cleaned off her foot and we got up to dance a little.
Then we left the school to finish partying without us.
