"Suze, I've got a problem, the sole has come off of my shoes, I can't walk like this."
"Try going to the office, they might have some shoes in the lost and found, maybe you can borrow something from them."
"Good idea," I said as I left to the office, which thankfully wasn't far as my sole flopped around, being only attached at the heel.
"Sorry, Bobby, I'm afraid there aren't any shoes in the lost and found that might fit you," said Mrs. Peterson, the school secretary.
"Suzy, help! They don't have any shoes that I could wear"
"Here Bobby, try these," Suzy answered, as she handed me her sneakers (trainers for you Brits) she wore for P.E.
"Suze! These are girl's sneakers, I can't wear pink sneakers!"
"Bobby, then you will have to go barefoot or just flop around in those," she replied. "That's what you get for not having any gym shoes and just wearing your sneaks all the time. If you want, you can wear my Mary Janes instead of my sneakers."
"Suzy, you are just too much, I'm tempted to try to take you up on that, you wouldn't dare!"
"You're on," she said as she snatched the sneakers away from me.
I tried on the Mary Janes, which fit quite well, and said, "OK Suze, you had your joke, I'll wear the sneakers."
"Nope, you can just wear those today, besides, they look good on you, much better than those ragged sneakers you always wear."
“Bobby, sit still!”
“I can’t help it, it itches!”
“Bobby, be reasonable, I haven’t even picked up the clippers, it can’t itch.”
“Mom, I don’t care, can’t we just leave my hair long? It isn’t very long, it barely reaches my collar, there are lots of boys that have hair longer than I do.”
“Bobby, you will have to take better care of your hair then, you can’t go for weeks without washing your hair and you will have to use conditioner. I will not have you going around with greasy hair!”
“I’m not like Billy, I wash my hair every three days. But, what is conditioner?”
“I have a bottle of conditioner in my bathroom, use that after you wash your hair, just read the instructions. As your hair gets longer, you have to take better care of it, conditioner keeps you from having split ends. If you don’t take care of it, I’m going to make you get it cut like usual.”