Lloyd and I spent Sunday afternoon and part of the evening re-arranging his classroom. Well, he did most of it and I was his Girl Friday – totin’ and haulin’ when necessary.
Many things were donated items that had to be weeded through, trash needed to be trashed, and some tables and desks were going to switch places. We bought Pepsi to provide strength!
I moved some desks around (the ones I’m standing on for the picture) and when they were away from the wall I saw something spooky.
Ladies and gentlmen, I would like to offer my first installment of a series I like to call: Is It A Dead Spider?
Is it?
What did you guess?
If you guessed “Not a spider, but a rolled-up twist tie”, then you win!
You’ll be able to continue playing this game in subsequent posts. It’s important to remember the spider bit for the next part of this long – and yet kind of pointless – story.
Lloyd was up on a ladder with his head in the ceiling so he could run some cable across the room. He called to me, “Hey, come up here. I want you to see something.”
“Is it a dead spider?” I asked.
He assured me that it wasn’t. I climbed the ladder and he said, “Look on top of the server.” I did and saw:
Lauren: It’s the frog that Beth gave you.
Lloyd: Not that. Look closer.
Lauren: (looking with trepidation) There is a spider up here, isn’t there?
Lloyd: No. Oh, maybe you’re not high enough. Go up a step.
I did and saw:
Hey! It’s Lloyd’s pocketknife that he lost months ago! It’s the CyberLloyd 2000, as we like to call it – with all kinds of tools on it for fixing computers. He was missing it for weeks and we finally just ordered a new one. Now he has two, isn’t that sweet?
And wasn’t this a long, drawn-out way to tell you, ‘Lloyd found his pocketknife on top of the server’?