Gots Me Checks

After Brian showed up for the entire first week of summer school, just to hang out, I called down to the vice principal to see if he could earn some credit for the class. Having already taken photography and advanced photography, the principal offered Brian the chance to earn five credits for being my teacher's aide.

Yesterday Brian showed up to class with a backpack, which in itself is pretty unusual because he had never brought one before and a teacher's aide does not really need any supplies, especially my aides who have two jobs: bubble the roll and try to beat me at card games.

Even more unusual was that Brian did not remove his backpack for the entire duration of class. Five hours he had his backpack on his back, not removing it even for lunch. About four hours into the day I finally asked, "Do you have drugs in that thing or what?"

Brian opened up his backpack and, with pride, showed me what he had inside--the thing so important that it was worth wearing a backpack around all day.

"I gots me checks!"

Sure enough, Brian got a checkbook with M&M checks. He was on check #102 having written one check for $38.

I guess if you are a high schooler who just got checks, you're gonna have to find a place to keep them. The most obvious place? Yo' backpack!

Comments

[SaraJane]

Ok, that was just too funny!

[janet]

I was watching a lovely episode of engaged and underage last night, and the girl who was getting married (who had an 11 month old baby; she was 18 yrs old herself) went to go get a marriage license and the lady had to tell her how to write a check because she had NEVER written a check before. Crazy? Are checks going to be a thing of the past pretty soon because everything will be done online?

[Shesabigstar]

Awww, how cute...I remember how exciting it was to write checks when I got my first account. Now, it's just painful!

[cupcake]

Those are some pretty freaking awesome checks. Go him!

[Pamela]

I don't know which is funnier -- the fact that he's so proud of his checks or the fact that a high school guy would order M&Ms checks.

Either way, YAY for Brian!

[Chris]

Love the checks. I actually wrote a check yesterday. Its the first time in eons.

[ally bean]

That is a wonderful story. What a hoot. And those checks . . . ?!!

[kathryn]

silly young boy

[Nicole]

One of my favorite tasks (this is sad) at my job is to write out a check because I don't use my own checkbook. And work checks are huge. So everytime I give one to a supplier, etc, I feel like saying 'and you're the lucky winner of $..."

[Rene]

Hmmm, Barquan with checks? I see a repeat of "Catch Me if You Can."

[Barquan johnson]

HOLLA! I GOT ME CHECKS!

[Eden]

I find that each entry about Barquan is getting better and better. :)

[Amber]

So Brian showed me this blog and as we were laughing we found some definitions on urbandictionary.com that you might appeciate because you know Brian.

1. Ebonics- A poor excuse for a failure to grasp the basics of english. When in doubt, throw an "izzle" sound in the middle of any word of just string random thoughts together and insinuate that they actually mean something. When backed into a corner, you can always claim that it has something to do with a sort of symbolism or is a defining trait that makes your race great, versus own up to the fact that it is essentially laziness at it's finest.
ex.
Plim-plizzle, my nizzle, don' foget bouts tha six-fo, chuch, dawg up in da hood, chilly my grilly. fo sho.

2. fooz-
1. Someone who is very cool.
2. Someone who is rockin' on the guitar! :D
3. Someone who's sexy.
ex.
That kid Brian is Brian the FOOZ. XD

[Rachael]

I would just like to say that I am so glad Barquan identifies himself as, "Barquan Johnson," everytime he posts... because, otherwise, I would confuse him with "Barquan Smith," or maybe even "Barquan Anderson."

[Barquan johnson]

Checker out!

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