Another days work at my girlfriend Jill’s school, with the help of good friends Terry and Karen, and much was accomplished. Blue felt bulletin boards with colorful borders, more moving of furniture, cleaning out bookshelves, portable storage cabinets and filling black plastic bags full of trash made us feel as if we’d accomplished a lot. Terry and Karen made the work seem like fun at times, laughing at our mistakes, and discussing the right way to accomplish certain tasks!
After about 3 1/2 hours, Terry and Karen took off and Jill and I finished up the lose ends. Because Jill’s portable is clear in the back end of the school, we found another new teacher there to unlock the gate so Jill could drive her car back to fill it with the boxes of donated books we had accumulated. There was more activity at the school this time as opposed to last, a repair company was there to fix the AC unit and the night custodian was waxing floors for the day custodian who was on vacation.
To get a vehicle around to the back by the portables you need a key to unlock the main gate, something we didn’t have, and why we got the teacher to help us. Since there were a lot of people at school we didn’t give much thought to having the car inside the school grounds. We figured the custodian would be there until closing, about 4pm, so we would have plenty of time to move the car before he left. Wrong. Jill and I left about 20 minutes after Terry and Karen took off, still well before the 4 o’clock hour, so we were really surprised to see the gate locked and the parking lot almost empty when we drove around to the front of the school to go home. After the initial shock set in, Jill and I set out to find someone who might be able to help us in getting the gate locked. I remember seeing the AC repairman towards the back of the school just before we left so I walked around the building hoping to find them. When I came back towards the front I saw Jill had got ahold of him and we got the district phone number. Much to our relief there was still personnel at work and they said they’d send someone out as soon as possible, though it might be a while. So Jill and I parked our hot sweaty and tired bodies in the shade and waited. About 15-20 minutes later someone arrived and let us out. Jill talked to him for a few minutes before we drove of. He told her it was a good thing she called when we did because in another few minutes there wouldn’t have been anyone at the office to take our call!
