I Was Feeling Unsettled
Greeting children at our school from the car line yesterday.
First car seemed to be parked. No one appeared to be in it.
Maybe someone is gardening, I thought. The garden is six feet from it.
The brake lights came on. I expected a child to get out.
No child did. I had a peculiar feeling about it, an unsafe feeling.
I went inside got a pencil and paper and wrote down the plate number.
Continued greeting children. The car did not move. No one got out.
I was feeling unsettled.
Was someone waiting for a particular child? And why?
That afternoon a man claiming to be a father tried to get into the school.
He was shaking and kicking a side door. A teacher asked what he wanted.
He said he was a father and wanted in. She told him to go to the front.
He went to another side door and tried it.
I gave the license plate number to security when they came.
Because I had felt unsafe.
Man was mentally unstable.
Copyright © Caren Krutsinger | Year Posted 2021
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