After school, as kids wait in the large hall for pickups at Stratford Elementary, there is a policy of reduced rowdiness that the teachers like to enforce. This is done by separating the pairs of kids who sit together and start jabbering, and then re-assigning them to other kids’ tables.

Our very own Dumps, apparently makes this super difficult: “Mom, I have made the job of the teacher impossible in the departure hall.”

A very curious mom: “How?”

Dumps: “I am so talkative, and I can talk to anyone about anything. So when the teacher separates me from my partner, and makes me sit with someone else, I just start talking to them as well. There is no where in the deoparture hall that I am not able to talk to anyone. The teachers have now given up.”

Way to go, Rowdy Jr.