I did not know that.

[elfs]

Today, I took Yamaraashi-chan out to one of the two middle schools that we're looking at for next year, and while we were walking around the sciences classroom I picked up the "health and well-being" textbook. It was named simply Health, and it was that garish, 16-pt, thick paper with illustrations bordered in bright primary colors layout so popular with middle school publishers and administrators.

The book had three essential sections: Exercise and nutrition, reproductive health, and substance abuse. The section on reproductive health was hilarious. The one thing that stood out at me was a photograph filling a quarter of the page of a naked young man, from the navel up, covered in suds, in front of a tiled background. The caption underneath read, "Frequent bathing is one of the best ways to take care of your reproductive system."

Uh, yeah. When I was a middle-schooler, frequent showers were a way of, er, inspecting the hardware and ensuring that it was fully functional. Must have drained the water heater more than once doing the double-check.

Comments

[lucky-otter.livejournal.com]

When I first read the phrase "drained the water heater", I thought "huh, that's an odd metaphor" - and then I realized you meant it literally.

[elfs.livejournal.com]

Giggle. I wonder if we could convince someone that it was.