24th
August
2006
If we can’t buy the right pencils
posted in economy |
We just came back from the zoo. School opens soon, and all the parents are in full fever, buying everything that Dick and Jane might possibly ever need in the classroom. Today. Now. Get out of their way, they have lists and are on a mission. Just the right number of file folders, in the mandated colour. Three erasers, not two. Buy two packages and hope that the extra eraser gets lost (it will). Make sure that the vendors of dead tennis balls are able to unload a boatload full, newly labelled as chair-slippers. How about a laptop?
Focus people. Dick and Jane are still in Grade One. Neither one needs a laptop just yet. The real question must be “If we can’t buy the right pencils, will schools never open?”
