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Anachronisms
May. 30th, 2006 04:08 pmMaybe this happens with everybody who's a parent who has their first kid reach the proper age, and so they set foot inside an elementary school for the first time in 30 years, and, well... something is a bit odd, you can't quite put your finger on it.
And it's a lot more significant than the fact that all of the desks and chairs are way smaller than you remember them to be. It's something deep down that says "This is not actually a school; this is some weird-ass Hollywood Conception of a school," and of course, being Hollywood, they got it wrong, as usual.
But then you see actual kids running up and down the halls, the place indeed appears to be functioning as a school, and nobody else has any problem with it. Which then means you have to fall back on the old standby, "I am in an alternate universe." ( cue twilight-zone music )
And it's a lot more significant than the fact that all of the desks and chairs are way smaller than you remember them to be. It's something deep down that says "This is not actually a school; this is some weird-ass Hollywood Conception of a school," and of course, being Hollywood, they got it wrong, as usual.
But then you see actual kids running up and down the halls, the place indeed appears to be functioning as a school, and nobody else has any problem with it. Which then means you have to fall back on the old standby, "I am in an alternate universe." ( cue twilight-zone music )
