Mama Said

Mama Said

First Grade, first day, orders from Mama---Remember what I said now,
don't be sliding down that sliding board at school it will wear your
panties out and I will know it if you do because it leaves grey stuff
on em from the metal---

Lord the only time you might really get to play and they won't let you.
It's not fair. My Sister and me stood around the School yard and waited
for a swing to open up, it did and we grabbed it. You sit she said and
stood up with one foot on each side of me. She held on to the chains,
some kid gave us a push and she got us swinging really high, squating
on the upswing and standing tall on the downswing.

Well looks like we wouldn't be swinging either. Thats the day I found
out that swinging makes me throw up, so I did. We had to walk around
School the rest of the day smelling like vomit. Nobody would sit by us
on the bus going home.

I was determined that since I couldn't swing that I was going to slide
down that sliding board, just like everybody else. The very first time
I slid down it, my panties got caught on something at the very bottom
of the slide. When I stood up it made a rip in my panties.

Well after I got over that switching I decided that if I didn't have
any panties on I wouldn't have a problem. I went to the bathroom pulled
my panties off, stuffed them in my book satchel, and put it in my desk.
Then I went outside holding my dress down on both sides making sure it
stayed down. Now to the slide.

Did you know that you need panties to slide down a sliding board? Well
I found out the hard way. I went up to the top spread my dress out so
the gray stuff wouldn't get on it, let go my hands and went about three
inches and stopped. All the kids behind me were yelling go on scaredy
cat turn aloose.

My butt was stuck to the slide I tried to push and slide but it didn't
work. I turned around to stand up and walk down the slide, and the kid
behind me slid into me knocking me to the ground. My dress blew up and
everybody saw what the stork had seen. Oh my God. Some kid helped me up
I got the wind knocked out of me, and dragged to the Principals
office.

Did you forget your underwear this morning she said, I was crying so
hard that I couldn't answer her. Then the oddest thing happened she
came around the desk, picked me up, sat down with me on her lap, and
rocked me until I stopped crying.

I told her what happened, that I was sorry and would never do it again,
please don't tell my Mama I said. I'll get a bad whoppin a real bad
one. She sent for my Sister in third grade. When she came in I went
running to her begging her not to tell.

The Principal told her what happened, and that I had promised not to do
this again. She was sure that I had learned a lesson. That she said was
punishment enough nothing else need be said. And nothing ever
was.

The only problem I had now was the boys kept chasing me trying to pull
my dress up. I never went without panties again. And I never forgot Mrs
Mifflin our Principal. Nobody was ever that kind to me before.