Happy birthday!

(Baonghean) - The couple was lying down watching TV when little Bim ran in:

- Mom, tomorrow please give me money to contribute to the fund to buy a birthday cake for the school security guard?

I was so shocked that I couldn't speak, but my wife was calmer:

- Another birthday party? Last month, our class collected funds to organize a birthday party for the English teacher, the month before that for the PE teacher and the Art teacher, and the month before that, the homeroom teacher next door came over to teach for... one period, didn't she?

- Yes, who said teachers weren't born in the same month? This is like the B52 carpet bombing that History teacher Thu just taught about the other day. Oh, and it seems like Thu's birthday is coming up soon, let me see...

Having said that, the little girl busily flipped through a few pages of the notebook she had been carrying, studying it with a very serious expression: “Oh, no, Ms. Thu is due in 3 months, I mistook her for Ms. Quy. Remember, Mom, you have to give me money tomorrow, if I am the class monitor and pay late, it will be embarrassing!” Having said that, the little girl took the notebook and skipped back to her room, leaving her husband and her lying there, looking at each other in confusion.

My wife grumbled:

- This is too much! They have so many subjects, more than ten teachers, and yet they all want to celebrate their birthdays! And that's not all, what about the teachers who taught them last year, the year before, the year before, and the year before! Then there's the janitor, the teacher in the next class, the substitute teacher, the teacher... next year, what kind of teachers are there! Now they even want to celebrate the security guard's birthday, when we were in school, we never saw any birthday parties.

- Oh, the security guard seems to be very old. The other day when I went to pick up my child, I saw him scolding some students until his dentures fell out. How could he eat the birthday cake? Oh well, it's just because the children love their teachers so much!

- If they love their teachers, why don't they stop talking privately, stop eating snacks, stop taking off their shoes and throwing mangoes from the school, and study hard? If they love them with cakes and candies but then litter the classroom, play around loudly and disturb other classes, they will only make the teachers get criticized, so what's the point of loving them? Remembering their teachers' birthdays and congratulating them is precious, having the means to buy gifts is also good but it must be moderate, not too much, not disturbing the teachers. Besides, they don't earn their own money, they're still young but liking to hang out and eat like that will only spoil them! Like father, like son!

My wife kept talking and glared at me, not letting me say anything. How miserable, "what goes around comes around", Bim asked for money to celebrate the school security guard's birthday, not me. I scratched my head and stammered:

- Well, the security guard has his work cut out for him. Every time I took Bim to school late, I had to ask him to open the gate. Besides, the kids must be bored with eating the girls' birthday cake all the time. I predict they'll change it up this time...

While I was making a very eloquent excuse, my old colleague named Than called: “Hello, tomorrow is Huong’s birthday, a probationary employee, my brother’s son married the cousin of my brother’s wife... the boss’s sworn brother, we are organizing a party, it’s not good to be absent!”. I cautiously turned to look at my wife, she looked like she was about to jump in and tear me apart, the dried squid. Oh my god, Huong, Huong, Bim, Bim, happy birthday!

Hai Trieu