A recent conversation with my son, age 10.
Junior: Mom, when you were in school, were the lunch ladies mean?
Me: Hmm. No, they weren't. I remember them as being nice.
Junior (with relief in his voice): Yeah, they're nice. At my school they're nice. But in books they're always mean.
Me: Yeah, I noticed that, too.
Junior: It isn't true.
Me: Nope.
You need to get him the Lunch Lady series by Jarrett Krosoczka - the lunch lady in those is pretty nice & funny!
Posted by: Kathy | January 20, 2010 at 10:40 AM
Awwwww. SO. CUTE, this kid. And such a good heart, not wanting the lunch ladies to be unfairly labeled.
Posted by: tanita | January 20, 2010 at 11:12 AM
Kathy, yes, that Lunch Lady is an exception, isn't she?
Tanita, I could tell he was relieved!
Posted by: Susan (Chicken Spaghetti) | January 20, 2010 at 11:59 AM
That is really cute! And I second Kathy's point that the Lunch Lady from Krosoczka is an exception.
Actually, my grandmother was a lunch lady for a while. So I never bought into the negative stigmas at all.
Posted by: Jen Robinson | January 20, 2010 at 02:20 PM
Love this.
Posted by: Steph | January 20, 2010 at 07:15 PM
Jen and Steph,
I think he's been reading the Wayside School books...
Posted by: Susan (Chicken Spaghetti) | January 21, 2010 at 08:30 AM
I'm a Lunch Lady! I love being around the children every day.
Posted by: Katie | January 21, 2010 at 09:42 PM
Katie, I can image the conversations you hear! What fun.
Posted by: Susan (Chicken Spaghetti) | January 22, 2010 at 08:34 AM
:-)
Posted by: Marjorie | January 22, 2010 at 03:21 PM
"Serve you?"
Posted by: Michelle | January 25, 2010 at 11:21 AM
Clearly, someone needs to write a book that features a lunch lady as its charming heroine. Maybe it will be your son!
Posted by: Hannah | January 25, 2010 at 04:44 PM