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Science Fiction » alt.startrek » Hey, Klingons have feelings, too!
Hey, Klingons have feelings, too! [message #65148] Mi, 22 Juni 2005 00:09
Elvis Gump FASTMAIL P  
Saw this via BoingBoing.net and had a hearty laugh.
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Hey, Klingons have feelings, too!

I got a call from the elementary school administrative assistant this
morning.

"Mrs. Jaworski?" I could hear her tapping a pencil against the desk.

"Uh yes, and it's Ms., please."

"Your son, 8, has been suspended for the day. Come here and pick him up."

She didn't give me time to answer, to ask questions, her voice disappeared
as if someone cut the line. I stood in the kitchen, my bare feet aching from
yesterday's marathon, and I took a deep breath. My son can be a nut at
times, but he's never done the kinds of things that troubled kids do. He
doesn't talk back, he doesn't pick fights, and he's never destroyed
property. I couldn't picture him doing anything scholastically evil. Maybe
he stripped and ran around the school naked, I thought. I grabbed my keys
and headed out the door.

The principal met me in her office. She closed the door tightly behind me
and invited me to sit in a stuffed orange vinyl chair.

"Mrs. Jaworski, 8 has been suspended from school for one day." She wore an
arctic blue power jacket over black slacks, and I self-consciously tried to
pull my hooded sweatshirt further over my pink pajamas.

"It's Ms., please. And sorry for my attire, but I ran a marathon yesterday
and I'm too sore to change this morning." I tried to infect her with my
smile, but she wore a tight-lipped expression as frosty as her jacket. "So,
anyway. What did he do?" I picked at the hem of my sweatshirt, looked just
to the right of her face. I couldn't meet her eyes. I felt nervous. I felt
underdressed. I wondered where 8 was.

So she told me what he did. And as she told me, I started to laugh. I didn't
laugh a little, either, but I belly-laughed and grabbed my stomach. My son
stood with his class this morning, put small right hand over heart, faced
the American flag, and recited his own personal pledge of allegiance:

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United Federation of Planets, and to
the galaxy for which it stands, one universe, under everybody, with liberty
and justice for all species.

"Mrs. Jaworski. This isn't humorous. The Pledge is an extremely important
and patriotic moment each morning in the classroom. I am ashamed of your
son's behavior, and I hope you are, too."

I wanted to say, Hey Lady, it's a big universe. Why should we pledge
allegiance to a mixed-up country? Why shouldn't my son embrace the potential
of stardust? But I stood, extended my hand, apologized for my laughter,
slung my purse over my shoulder, opened her door to find my son, 8, red-eyed
sitting on the wooden bench bordering the World Map wall.

I'm sitting here, working on computer things, and Mr. 8 sits in the living
room. He has to write the "real" pledge of allegiance fifty times before he
can return to school. But first he's watching Star Trek. Damn straight.

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³I even take the position that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and
ought to be encouraged.²
-- Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia,
at Harvard's John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, 9-28-2004

--
³In a heroic world, there would be no heroes.²
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Re: Hey, Klingons have feelings, too! [message #65152 ] Mi, 22 Juni 2005 03:19
ToolPackinMama  
Elvis Gump wrote:
> Saw this via BoingBoing.net and had a hearty laugh.
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What a cool story. :)
Re: Hey, Klingons have feelings, too! [message #111344 ] Di, 16 August 2005 23:26
Bonilla  
On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 21:19:37 -0400, ToolPackinMama
<laura [at] lauragoodwin.org> wrote:

>Elvis Gump wrote:
>> Saw this via BoingBoing.net and had a hearty laugh.
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>> http://blogs.salon.com/0003522/2005/06/06.html#a576
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>What a cool story. :)
indeed, very funny :>
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