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Whew!
Feb 26th, 2007 by Babs

The Friday before February vacation one of Jarret’s schoolmates decided to whack him a couple of times upside the head with a wiffle bat filled with ice water. Jarret is fine. So fine, in fact, that had another schoolmate’s mother not called me to tell me about the incident, I wouldn’t have known about it.

I spoke to the principal about it and it was agreed that since this incident occcured after school hours that the other boy’s father would have to escort his son to and from school, and that he would not be allowed on the playground after hours. Fine. However Glenn is now insisting that I start walking Jarret to school again. Now Jarret has security issues. Definitely a momma’s boy. So when he insists that he doesn’t want me walking him to school, I am going to respect that. To Glenn, though, it’s all about the appearance *rolls eyes* so naturally there was quite a bit of “discussion” about this. It pretty much ended when I pointed out what a hypocrite Glenn was being (even though he insisted that he wasn’t).

This morning Jarret sets off to school on his own. I pick up some stuff around the house before sitting down to read my email. The first message of the morning was from the town list and was from a concerned individual who wanted to know why there were police cars all around the school (that Jarret goes to).

I think you can guess where my mind was.

Fortunately Jarret is fine. It took awhile to find this out, however, and I was a wreck the whole time. It turns out that some nutjob decided to kill his 81 year old stepfather, who lived in the school area and then go after his mother (who managed to get away with only a couple of stab wounds). After she fled he apparently turned the knife on himself. Police found him several blocks away from the school (and us) running around in just his underwear.

So, Jarret is fine. Now I have to check in with Ben, who I hope is as lunch, so I can text him. As fate would have it he catches his bus to school right where police picked up the guy and would’ve been there about the time of the incident.

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