The Only Red Car

The reading tests in question were to test how fast you can read. This was in elementary school only for me. But basically you would go sit down with an adult and you had a bunch of passages in front of you and you just read them aloud and the adult like takes notes on how you're doing or whatever.

Sometimes when I remember these tests i cringe because I knew that they were testing how fast you read. But younger me took that literally and I read as fast as I could. And I cringe because adult me realizes that I didn't need to be doing all of that. They just wanted to make sure i didn't have a learning disability/literacy problems.

I forget the actual name of the test but I think it rhymed with decimal??

Now, at 29, I’m lowkey having a panic attack because my academic email is filled with middle schoolers wanting me to answer their questions about pygmy raccoons and I keep putting off answering them because I’m so overwhelmed with all the other raccoon stuff I have to do.

❝ I thought you were dead.❞ ❝ I thought you were smaller.❞

SEBASTIAN STAN as BUCKY BARNES + CHRIS EVANS as STEVE ROGERS

Did ye ken John Keel, with his cloak so brown? Did ye ken John Keel, with his scarred frown? Did ye ken John Keel, proceeding 'round Morpork town, At an ungodly hour of the morning?

The sounds of riot brought me from my bed, But 'twas redirected by the Watch he led. His bellowin' orders would 'wake the dead! You can ask Reg Shoe in the morning.

Yes, I kenned John Keel, and Wiglet too! Dicken, Nancyball, Snouty, Coates, and Shoe! They did a job the didn't have to do, At an ungodly hour of the morning.

So I followed John Keel, as ye can tell. And he taught me a Watchman don't need a bell. Ye have to more, when all's not well, Than shout out the hour of the morning.

So here's to John Keel, and we all know why. Though, I was surprised to learn he was I. Still, I'll wear the lilac 'til the day I die, At any damned hour of the morning.