Re: Packing - "Show, no Tell Time" Part 2 - Time to Execute!

After-Affects: The range of emotions, affects, as well as effects, the "after parties" depending on your own party of affiliation, your locale, and political preferences. And, perhaps just after many parents finished cleaning up from the "after parties" following the high school "Homecoming" dance, which seem to be-coming an all night affair, leaving parents longing for a "return to simpler times" -- "what happened for just dunking for apples...now we have to make sure the cider is not too hard..." And parents, left to themselves, after all the promises of their children, to clean up after doggie, if you would "please, please, please..." and now, you find yourselves once again, swearing (perhaps) that you would not "get suckered again"...

Sent packing: What you may have accomplished in concert with many dis-contents, managed to "vote the bums out of office", and now, you find yourselves left asking, after all the hype and promises, begging, in the form "no more telling, just show us..." In educational settings, as children and their parents get "back to the business" of the day, meanwhile, such as the daily routines of making lunches, packing, re-packing, checking, re-checking, and, if it's your child turn (to be the "show-and-teller"), as they re-mind you at the last minute, to bring some "thing" to school for their appointed  time on this re:vealing day (see yesterday for the common virtues) you find yourself, at a frenzied pace now, rummaging through the junk in their closet "that I told them to clean out last Saturday#%&^!), discarding oodles of Halloween candy wrappers😠😟, proceeding all the way to the bottom of their desk drawer...after a to-and-fro, back-and-forth, "heated debate" rivaling what we saw the other day, re-garding what's "allowed" these days, the re-quirements for the kinds of "stuff" you can pack, let alone pass through the metal detectors, past the cameras, even the scrutiny of the "cancel culture"...finally to be passed around in class, shared...And then, only then, with certain qualifiers...

"Ask Me, No Tell" What you might get in response, as an audience participant, when asking your classmate a question in the midst of "Show and Tell", especially if it's prior to the "hold your questions..." which brings to mind what reporters frequently hear at news conferences these days, which are ostensibly held for their own "briefing", which in turn, at least for me, on behalf of all those pollsters who are scratching their heads, trying to figure out how so many going to the poll told them one thing but apparently, "in droves" went the other...millions of voters who told the polls what the most important (economic mostly) issues were but went "behind closed doors" and endorsed one whose profile was almost the "complete opposite"!😒😔😕...

"There's just no telling" As in "Impossible to know..." Or, in recent politico speak, "The lengths they'll go to..." Perhaps accompanied by some in-action by several "likely voters" who, when initially polled were quick to tell, "I can't wait to vote the bums out of office" but when it came to the appointed day at the appointed, plenty of time (13 hours around these parts), became in what's known in HR departments of larger businesses and attendance departments at schools as "no call, no show". Perhaps even "absent" when you, the student, were being counted on for your very own "S & T", upon "appeal" the teacher, may grant you a "re-do", whereas you, the "registered, likely voter", if you failed to cast your vote in time, will be, for the time being...SOL, LOL...which will, due to the time you have to wait, to once again "throw the bums out" for lots of tell, but little show, will "teach you, once and for all, not to get out of line...", common phraseology for teachers and those other adults reminding us, of the value of "line placement" (math again😁😔) and more generally, about how we position, posture ourselves, especially when prepping for a HUGE presentation, perhaps our very first S & T...after which the teacher if not the whole class rates us, based on a "rubric". Under the best of circumstances, we end up "well positioned"...as in...

"Top Drawer" (sometimes used in conjunction with "Top Shelf") "...of highest quality....class😊😉😎 which, even within your class, may result in "preferential seating"..."teacher's pet!" (or "first class" versus plain old "business class" if UR on your way, way back from a conference, depending on the "business perks" you just earned, based in part on your S & T). Other-wise, if you have gone against your parents' wishes, advice, tested the limits, snuck a "thing" into your pack and. against your own "better judgement", in the presence of "poor timing", just when you thought you could "get away with it" in the back of the classroom, when the teacher turned her back, decided to surreptitiously (or so you thought) show off one of your "prized possessions" to a few of your buds, could find it residing in the teacher's desk...

"Time to Pack it in..." Different meanings for different S & T participants, depending on where they sit, after their respective stands, positions...for the 'under' performers this may come in the form of "we sent 'em packing, voted the bums out"...whereas for the "student of the day" who may have, against the wishes of their parents, their own better judgement, tried to 'out' perform, whose S & T was "highly endorsed" by classmates but judged "out of line" by the "supreme" judge in the (class) room, may find their own backpack just a bit lighter, sans a prized possession, which now resides, at least until the end of this school year, at a time when the "electorate" may have long forgotten...at the bottom of the bottom drawer of the teacher's desk...in the company of a legion, of (political) relics...alongside a few "rotten apples"...

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