violets are blue
parchment paper
is good for you
Squares have points
circles are spherical
parchment paper is
a goddamned miracle
Why am I so emotionally attached to parchment paper? I'll tell you: on my first day training for lunch ladiness I had to wash dishes, lots of dishes. Many of them were metal baking trays. The lunch was covered with mozzarella cheese. The trays were not lined with parchment paper. Do the math. Every tray had to be painstakingly scraped with a metal scraper. Then they had to be scrubbed with a green or metal scrubby or both. That's before the dishwasher. If they didn't need a second run, I was lucky.
I thought of asking the cook, or anyone there why they didn't use parchment paper on the trays. I decided against it. At the second school I worked at I noticed parchment paper on everything. It was pizza day, so that was a good thing. I mentioned how the last school had not done that. I mentioned how I'd decided not to suggest it. I was assured that my decision to keep my mouth shut was a good one. That if I had spoken up I'd have likely been evaluated as having a bad attitude or being unable to follow directions. Yeesh! The last school I worked for used the parchment paper, too. I just have to hope to hell that when I am called into that first school it's not a messy lunch day. I know, good luck, right?
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