Ah, just another perk of my great job!

     The other day, I noticed one of my sweet students sporting something similar to this:

     That's about how much I could see of it.  But since I'm hip, oh so hip, I knew what the rest of the bracelet read, just add a "bies" onto the part you can see.
     Yeah, a third grader.  (Tutoring student.)  A sweet young boy.  I had had a rough day,  was feeling overly cranky, and I most certainly wasn't going to talk with him about his "bies" love in front of his peers--can you imagine the 'splaining I'd have to do?  So at the end of the session, I stopped in the office and I told our wonder-secretary about it.  He met me as I was coming out of the office, and I looked to his wrist where I only saw:

     Seems like he's an equally opportunity Lothario.  He "hearts" nerds, too.  So I bit the teacher bullet and asked, "Where's your other bracelet?"  He had layered it inside the nerds cuff.  I played dumb, very easy for me to do, and I asked, "What does that other one say?"
     Ah ha, he wouldn't tell me.  He looked a little, but only a little, chagrined, so I said, "Well, if you can't tell me what it says, then you probably shouldn't wear it to school, right?"  Smart boy, he agreed.
     Talking to a boy about a "bie" bracelet (and yes I know they're all about breast cancer awareness--but come on, he's eight) is right up there with the time I had to talk to a boy to tell him, "You can't put stink on stink."
     I seriously, seriously love my job.