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Thursday, March 24, 2005
The Fool Of The Moon
It is my experience as a 39-year teacher in public school, that the full of the moon reliably does SOMETHING to some people. Today must have been a challenge to teachers all across America as children in the full of the moon experienced their last day before Easter Break...now known as Spring Break to appease those who do not celebrate Easter other than to diminish it for others. So there schools were at the mercy of the moon, struggling through a hard, hard day of combined excitement over vacation and insanity caused by the moon.
Whom does the moon affect, how, and and how much? Yes, this is merely my personal observation of a phenomenon that occurred at least once/month for 10 months out of each of those 39 years, however... As I saw it, in the full of the moon, real crazies had their best day of the month, performed like normal people having a good day. Normal people were very little, if at all different. The true lunatics on this day are those usually on the edge between crazy and normal, the people who all their lives need to rein themselves in or get branded as pretty far off. Something about the full of the moon releases them to be an extreme version of whatever is their greatest weakness. If they tend to talk too much, they can't be shut up on the day of the full moon; chatter, chatter, chatter. If they are clumsy, their day is a mine field of booboos and disasters. If they're silly, they make fools of themselves all day. If they're mean, they do awful things without any evidence of an interfering conscience. If they tend to be reckless, they make terrible bets, they drive like Genghis Khan, they dive without checking to see if the pool has any water. If they badly manage anger, they rage and storm about every little slight to their feelings.
Generally, you have to watch out for the person who is usually OK, but has to work to seem that way.
What brings me to this lecture? The inhabitants of the yellow apartments, our local hotbed of social pathology. Today for what can only be a full moon reason, one of the worst women over there armed herself with wheelbarrow, garbage bags, shovel, and rake and spent the entire day cleaning up the land around both buildings. This effort produced, besides the usual garbage, a mountain of 48 huge full sacks of trash waiting by the curb. At least that's what I can count from my porch. The lady was having her best day.
On the other hand as the high school bus pulled up, out poured 7 of the large, teenaged boys who live across the street and who really don't attend school all that often. No doubt they went to school today because they needed a wider audience for their behavior than just us home folks. These boys are not totally crazy. They are somewhat defective, but mostly mean and bad. Let me just say that as they piled out of the bus, I ran indoors and locked the door behind me. The vast stupid roar of senseless rage was enough to get me in the house without the accompanying spectacle of those boys beating each other up. Gracious sakes, what a sight. This is a busy time on 38th Street, a popular rush hour cross-town route. Made no difference to the bad boys in the full of the moon. Traffic stopped while they threw each other around, threw each other to the ground, beat on each other with fists, fell and rolled around kicking and pummelling each other, 7 great big man-sized bodies all over the street. They flung each other up against cars, ran up and over cars chasing one another, punched and kicked cars in their idiotic tantrum. It did not stop until the usual period at the end of such sentences...the police arrived.
Now, I do NOT think there's anything occult or paranormal about this full mooon stuff. Someday, I am betting, there will be a scientific discovery to explain what we do not now understand. However, I do entirely believe and accept that this day is noticeably different. While I was still teaching, we veteran teachers always knew which day was the full of the moon without checking the calendar.It was just so much the same each time and so unlike all the other days.
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