"Hello Mrs Flower"

This is surely one of the few jobs where every single day, you get a laugh! 

At our school we encourage children to greet us and use their manners.  Walking through the playground I am frequently greeted over and over and over and over......  My favourite is the little kids when they try to get their tongue around a greeting and frequently it is from a second language child. 

It is very lucky I answer to most things!

Recently the greeting went like this "Hello Mrs Flower" big smile, few teeth.  Immediately followed by a disgusted voice from her 6 year old buddy  "it's not Mrs FLOWER, it's Mrs VALDER!!!"

A child on road patrol in rather annoyed tones correcting his mother when she greeted me "Hello, Mrs Fowler"  said "No, it Mrs Growler, Mum!"  (Hmmmm, sad but true).

At the beginning of the year I was being introduced to the new entrants, the teacher asked "Does anyone know who this is?"  Dead silence, little eyes, not a sound (first day, silence didn't last long)........

The teacher says "let me give you a hint, it starts with p...p....p...p"

"PRINCESS!" shrieks one child who has just had the Eureka moment.  "Princess" agrees the others all nodding and looking pleased with themselves.  I must say I was quite pleased myself, Princess..... kind of has a ring to it and preferable to so many other possible P words.