Seeing as how I’ve been shamelessly neglecting this poor blog (for a change…) in recent weeks, you’ve probably been wondering what the Shiputzim family has been up to.
Here, then, are a number of vignettes, which should give you some idea of what’s been going on here in TRLEOOB*:
Scene #1
The Ulpanistit: [walks in the door at about noon]
Me: “Why are you home so early?”
The Ulpanistit: [surprised at the silly question] “Because we got our report cards today!”
Me: [shows my oleh roots again] “So?”
The Ulpanistit: [can’t believe that her mother is this ignorant] “So we NEVER finish after twelve on the day we get teudot…”
Me: [reluctantly concedes defeat and chalks this up to #yetAnotherThingI’llNeverUnderstand]
Scene #2
Me: [makes a sarcastic comment about the Shminist’s countless free periods]
The Shminist: “It’s your own fault, you know. Don’t forget that you’re the one who paid extra for me to take dovrei Anglit classes and do the 5-point English bagrut in 10th grade.”
Me: “Yeah, that part I remember.”
The Shminist: “Well, you should thank the yeshiva. They threw in two years of free periods at no extra charge…”
Me: [knows that there’s something wrong with his logic, but just can’t put my finger on it]
Scene #3
Certain Shiputzim Child: “We have a peulah in fifteen minutes, and I need to bring a chatif.”
Me: “Why did you wait until the last minute to tell me?”
Certain Shiputzim Child: [indignant] “I didn’t wait until the last minute! It’s just that I only remembered about it now…”
What has YOUR family been up to lately?
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*TRLEOOB=the real life equivalent of our blog
Sounds like the good old days. My two eldest also did English in the 10th grade, and I remember paying extra.
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Batya - Many schools now make the English speakers wait until 11th grade to take the bagrut.
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