Head-less: "Abdi-cation, (extended) vacation..." (AKA: "he took a buy-out") 

De-morale: "We're going to have to go...paper-less" (words that would come back and bite him in the...)

"Baby, it's cold outside..." while heating up else-where...

Ins, (mostly) outs: Of what happened behind closed doors...after we showed up, "Unannounced, uninvited, why are you showing up so suddenly when you are not in trouble, when it takes you forever and a day to get here on demand...what exactly do you want with me...out with it, I don't have all day...I'm a busy body, a person of impotence, and I have an important announcement to make over the PA about updated rules and regs, the ones you all have made necessary, given all your shenanigans...which previously saw you lose out, on going out, to what used to be called the Play-ground, which has been ground up, to make room for something else to grow...all in the name of progress...the whole world is going to pot, you know..." 

"In your own words": A common invitation, more often directive, when you are asked to review any occurrence of significance, such as one which landed us here. But here, our most simple refrain, in response to the even stronger directive..."Do I have to force it out of you...?!" (hardly, not when something comes so natural for us...especially after not being allowed to go out, on the play-ground for what we used to cherish as a time of recess! when/where we could let out a little steam and such...)

"You asked for it" What happened next becomes a bit hazy, given the quick rise of ambient temperature, that comes with the release of gas, which has been compressed (after "can't you please show some restraint...?") since the stone age, fossilized even...a story told from our perspective, that is. This, while he, even more than usual, was seen as getting "hot under the collar" -- "OK, OK, make it stop...I've seen, hard enough...this whole thing is starting to stink up the place...it makes me want to go myself...!" (music to our ears)...it's not as if we have an on/off switch but we have learned, over time, how to cal-i-brate...

"Have a seat, make yourself..." Turnaround is fair play, we've been told, not just out on the play-ground, but even here in the inner workings of the "Office of the Principal" -- where we lost, came to take back, which is rightfully ours, a period of time and place which has been almost sacred...

"A-ghast!" Well, not quite yet, but you seem to scents what is yet to come...

"For Pete's sake!" An expression of annoyance used as a substitute for stronger, "adults only" ears. But here, within ear shot of our own Pete, the expert pea shooter, who was just waiting for such an invitation...it's as if we wrote the script...😉😈😂...

"Terms and Conditions" Which he quickly came to see, were in his and all the others still in striking distance best interest...as well as all the other so-called "steak holders" (those who would like to eat out of doors, at lunch). After we made him wait, while we let it all out, one by one, as if calculated...which ended with him dashing out the door, given that we had "greased the deal" (the door knob on his private privy)..."The keys to which are in my drawers somewhere..."

"The New Deal" That he readily agreed to ("just give me the doc-you-meant to sign and let's be done with it!"), once he saw the wiz-dumb of our ways, after we released him from what we, ourselves had to agree was "cruel and unusual" treatment...after we had assured him we were, in deed, "all done" butt only after Ralphie, unbeknownst to the rest of us, leaked out an SBD (his specialty) --"sneak attack!". The new Terms of which, simplified...come down to...1) "unfettered access - you can go out and fart around anytime you feel the need...and no peaceful assemblies, as they are way too boring"; 2) "wear how much or how little you want, at recess! -- it's your new right to bare arms" and 3) "you are now, once again given the new found freedom to bring whatever you want from the play-ground for "show and tell" as I, your out-going principal agree to "no more search and seizure" prior to re-entry"...

And-then-some: As in an added benefit, a most pleasant side effect of finally visiting our "facilities" when his were "occupied" -- his final salvo..."And, even though you did not request it, I'm granting you what every student in my school has been yearning for: a better grade...of paper" 😂

Swirly, around the school yard: (rumors, that is) that the most recent trucker strike, which is now in most people's rear view, was brought to a quicker end, when they realized that it wasn't so much the food stuff that would be impact-full, but when they withheld TP, given the millions of end users...

Final say: "We've all got to go sometime😔"

The final chapter: As in one more ("Shady") rest stop, where things have really slowed down, almost to a halt. Come back and I'll smell it out for you, and me; worth a return visit.