Lockers

Back to school is in the air! Seriously I can’t believe it’s already August! I mean next week it will be mid-August. Unbelievable! So as is our routine each new school year, we headed to the uniform store in search of the red and blue polo shirts with Landon’s school emblem embroidered on it. Amazingly this dreaded task was not as labor-some as last year. As I walked in to the store, I was greeted and my name and number was written down so that I could be taken care of as soon as possible! Wow! Liking this already! About 5 minutes later I was having my order taken and Landon’s uniform shirts were purchased. Yes! A great feeling of accomplishment came over me  and then I saw the locker display.

Now I remember when I got to junior high school and we were given lockers. The whole hustle and bustle of having to leave one class as the bell rung and then get to your locker, put up your books from your previous class, grab the next set of  books and folders, check your hair, talk to your friends, and rush off to your next class all before the bell rang again! Whew! Pressure! If you were like me, though, you didn’t have just a plain old locker with books in it. O no! I had shelves! Remember the old “locker mate”? And of course a mirror was on the door of the locker for those hair-do checks that must occur every time the locker door swung open. I had pictures posted all along the door as well. A magnetic pencil/pen holder also had a home on the door so that I wouldn’t have to search for one. I mean I thought my locker was pretty cool! My “locker mate” was teal green for goodness sakes!  Well I just couldn’t help but to reminisce on my locker when I was abruptly stopped on my way out of the uniform store by this display of locker fabulosity!

Really? Carpet? Really? Is this what the “new locker” is all about? Speechless.