Last night, cashier/student had a dream.

Well, in fact, she (I) had a few dreams (one of them where she gave herself a tattoo removal using a sewing needle, and the other where her favorite chinese food restaurant somehow turned into a brothel), but the one that stuck with her while she was getting ready for work was the one about ghosts.

She often has dreams.

 Flying, falling, swimming, or running away from really scary clouds are very common themes. Ghosts are by far the most common and also a favourite of hers.

After a conversation about the joys of grade-school lunch swaps with one of her co-workers, she got to thinking. What if her dreams were real, that she was a ghost most of the time? What would her attendance at school have looked like from an outsider’s perspective?

A very favorite pastime in grades 5-7 was inhaling one’s lunch to make it out to the swing set before everyone else. Seeing how high you could go, and subsequently how stupid you could be for jumping off at that point were games that we enjoyed.

But, if I was a ghost:

Also a favourite from grades 5-7 was a slightly modified version of tag. We would combine hide-n-seek, tag, and long distance running. Boundaries were set based on the school fields.

But if I were a ghost:

And lastly, how could I defy my superiors, stick my tongue out at the world in general, or pass notes to my friends in class?

If I were a ghost:

No one could see me.

Fin.