Pause. Yes. Pause. Yeah. Pause. Oh. Sure. Long pause. Ohhh. Uh-huh. Pause. Well, that’s so nice of you to say.
Pause. Sure. Ohh. Wow. Ohhhh. Super long pause. I see, of course. I’m sure he will. Let me write it down.. got it.
I’ll call you after I’ve had a chance to talk to him, okay? Pause. No, thank you for thinking of him. Bye bye!”
And when she hung up, I was like, “what’s up, what did he say?”
And Mom said: “Well, it’s actually very flattering but kind of sad, too.
See, there’s this boy who’s starting middle school this year, and he’s never been in a real school environment before because he was homeschooled,
so Mr. Tushman talked to some of the lower-school teachers to find out
who they thought were some of the really, really great kids coming into fifth grade,
and the teachers must have told him you were an especially nice kid—which I already knew, of course—
and so Mr. Tushman is wondering if he could count on you to sort of shepherd this new boy around a bit?”
“Like let him hang out with me?” I said. “Exactly,” said Mom.
“He called it being a ‘welcome buddy.’” “But why me?”
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