What happens when the Baltimore Orioles, elementary students, and family of
children that do not watch a lot of sports mix? Well the kids come home all
excited about wearing orange for the Orioles photo day. Then when asked about
why they need to wear orange (when mom who is on the PTA board knows it is not
school picture day is confused about the picture) the following conversation
happens.
So
why are you needing to wear orange? “Because it is Orioles day at school tomorrow.” Jade asks the boys
if they even know the Orioles even are, can you even name any of the teammates.
Do you even know what
sport the Orioles play for? Between the boys they start listing all the
different sports… “um maybe football, no baseball, no lacrosse, wait it’s soccer
(one of the boys says), or is it hockey?” As they argued back and forth.
Suddenly Ellie all
excited shouted, “I know who the Orioles are! They are cookies! You know the cookies Oreo’s!”
At this point, I was
already laughing and laughed even harder. I simply said, “Clearly none of you
know who the Baltimore Orioles are. None of you have to wear orange to school
tomorrow. If you do you may, but you will NOT wear a basketball shirt Zach.”
Needless to say none of
the kids remembered to wear orange to school the next morning.
