I Spit in Your Food

I’ve been gone for a while.  Christmas break came so work stopped and I got out of the habit of posting.  Then once a new term began I never felt like posting.

But I’m back!  *crickets*

So much has happened in the last 12 weeks, including several new staff (insert: fresh meat)  but I’m going to start you off with a lovely story.

During Spring Break I worked at a kids camp.  So of course there are lots of kids who sometimes have more common sense than adults, and many more who don’t have any common sense at all.

One day we had soup.  Great.  I have to serve.  Not always a bad thing, since the kids are cute and funny to watch.  One child came through and asked for soup.  No problem.  I gave him half of what I give the adults simply because the kids usually don’t eat as much.  Once everyone had gone through I went into the back to eat and do work.  The kitchen staff leaves the food out for the stragglers and count on the counselors to keep the children away from the food.

After eating I walked back out to the dining room to gather the used dishes.  I walked out just in time to see a kid pouring his soup back into the FULL pot.  I was shocked.  I was so shocked that I had to walk away for two minutes before I could react.  I stayed within sight of the soup to stop anyone serving themselves the tainted soup.  Eventually I just grabbed the FULL pot and had to dump it down the drain.  Such a large amount of waste.  He is a child so I can excuse him, but I’m positive there are people at my school with the same amount of common sense as that child.

But that made me wonder.  The day before we had also served soup and I had given some to the same child.  Had he also dumped what he didn’t eat back into the pot?  I don’t think I ever want to know.