It was a crisp Autumn morning for the children of Meadowlark Middle School to begin the new school year.The playground was buzzing like chickens in a coop during feeding time, all the kids were flicking and flaying back and forth not wanting to miss any new event going on or finding out any new information from the summer.The girls showing off their new" school"poodle skirts with matching earmuffs and all getting into the clicks who is going to be accepted and denied for the school year. Most of the boys we're running around kicking at a rubber ball sitting on some bleachers or sneaking off to show off the coolness of stealing cigs from the old man, and of course the girls noticing which of the boys have matured over the summer and the boys were noticing the girls who matured as well.
Except for a small group of about 10 children who are huddled around one young man, Ritchie, Ritchie had something some of the kids had never seen before and only heard about.
"What ya gonna do with em?"Billy Epstein asked
"I've never seen one."little Stevie Donovan chimed in as he was the smallest and standing on his tippy toes just to get a glimpse.
"I don't know yet", Ritchie exclaimed."I found it over by the fence".
Of course Beth Ann McAllister, who knew she was going to be the most popular this year because her parents had just bought the first color tv on the block...