A Sea Of Chocolate Milks: Lunchroom Monitor Confidential
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00:00A sea of chocolate milks, lunchroom monitor confidential.
00:04Serving the public good on the grade school,
00:06student council was a perk limited to two fortunate students per classroom.
00:11The chosen few manned the bookstore in the mornings,
00:13helped in the central office, or in my case, became lunchroom monitors.
00:18As a sixth grader, this meant being the only gulliver in a gymnasium
00:22filled with first-grade Lilliputs.
00:24I accepted the challenge.
00:26Most of the time, the job involved crowd control,
00:29with the occasional Shell Answer Man moments thrown in.
00:33We politely but firmly pointed out where the lunch-packing sheep could graze,
00:38and made sure they returned their trays to the proper hair-netted authorities.
00:42However, there was one situation that took up almost all of our time,
00:46and it only cost a nickel.
00:49Milk cartons.
00:51Opening a chocolate milk carton at age six required motor skill
00:54usually reserved for age seven or above.
00:57The milks would hit the tables, and immediately, a sea of hands shot up.
01:01Monitors dutifully went from child to child, bending and unfolding every carton.
01:07Once in a while, we had a rogue me-do-it-myself,
01:10but it only took one launch failure to bring him back to the fold.
01:14These kids today.