Food Fetish...

There is a little boy in fifth grade that just happens to have lunch at the same time that I pick up my students from the cafeteria. He is a little overweight and I happened to notice him one day because his love of the tater tot is something to witness.

I have never seen someone in my life enjoy food like this little boy. I make it my business to get to the cafeteria to see what he is eating and HOW he is eating it.

Today I mention to his teacher about just how funny his love of all things lunchroom are to me. She, too, had noticed how he love to eat and told me a story about he first few days of school. This story is now special to me because it not only will describe this kid for you, but also give you a little insight on the kids in my school.

So the teacher asked the class to tell her about their families. The children told how many brothers and sisters they had, if they lived with their grandparents and the like.  Then she gets to one student who tells her that he has four brothers and five sisters.

She was shocked at such a large number of kids.  She asked if that included him and he said no; he made the tenth child.

So the little chunky boy turns to him with what the teacher decribes as a look of lust, admiration, and downright euohoria and says:

"Wow...I bet that means y'all get a whole LOT of foodstamps!!"

Love this job!