For several years a wonderful coordinator, Marsha Duncan, did a comedy bit for us called you know you’re an FRYSC Coordinator if……
I would like to know your short bit….please post here.
Mine: You know you’re a FRYSC Coordinator if someone answers the door in some state of nudity (towel, underwear, etc) and you are just so happy to have finally gotten a hold of someone that you don’t break eye contact and continue with what you needed to say and then leave.
If it doesn’t bother you….I won’t let it stop me….whatever it takes.
Not a recent happening…. but has happened.
Post your funny story here…we could all use some laughter these days.
You know you are a FRYSC coordinator if you find yourself out feeding a family’s dogs at midnight. 🤷♀️
You know you’re a FRC Coordinator when a mom talked to me on a home visit sitting on the toilet. She said oh, it’s just Ms Robyn, opened the bathroom door and we talked. 😂
If you go on a home visit and the mom opens the door and says, “Can you take my husband to the ER?”
You know you’re a FRYSC when the kids refer to you as their ‘school mom’!
Your know your an FRYSC Coordinator, if when on a home visit, you’ve been chased back to your vehicle by a rooster! 🐓
You know your and FRC coordinator when you go on a home visit and grab a nail in the tire from the junkyard you turned around in, get a pit crew to come plug the tire and do the next home visit! #covidcurse
You know your a FRYSC Coordinator if you recruit the husband/family/everyone to help. Whether to deliver furniture, food, fix something (plumbing, car, electrical), etc.
You know you’re a FRYSC coordinator when you go on a home visit with a hurt back. When the mom sees you she offers you a few of her Percocet pills. When you decline she tells you that nobody has to know!! Ha
For the record I didn’t take the pills 😂
You know you’re a FRYSC Coordinator if your day can consist of a DCBS call, a lockdown drill, and an ice cream party.
You know you are a FRYSC Coordinator when poopy pants in the middle of your lunch break no longer kills your appetite. Help the babies, wash your hands, and get back to munching.
You know you are a FRYSC Coordinator when you do a home visit in a freezing snow storm and tell family you love being outdoors in winter so you can stay on porch because you know house is infested.
You know you are a FRYCS Coordinator when a family asks you for your personal credit card to get a rental car.
(I did help with transportation, but not with a rental car or my credit card!)
You know you’re a FRYSC Coordinator if….grandpa passes away and the family doesn’t know what to do so they load him up in the car and stop by the Center for help.
True story….not mine…was told to me by my mentor a couple of months after I took the job….made me wonder what I had gotten myself into…..
Another one- You know you are a FRYSC coordinator when you do a home visit and signs around property state “Trespassers will be shot” or “Vicious dogs on property” and you hear the “Deliverance” theme song in your head
You know you are a FRYSC Coordinator when you visit a parent in jail. When you arrive, she cries and gives you a huge hug.
You know you’re a FRYSC Coordinator if….you no longer fear taking lice home and having to wash your entire house and family because now you’re more afraid of taking bed bugs home and having to burn the house down.
You know you are a FRYSC coordinator when you go on a home visit and are met by what feels like a million dogs and you baby talk them in hopes they don’t eat you up 🤣
You know you’re a FRYSC coordinator when you are climbing under a mobile home helping a family catch their chickens so their house can be sprayed for pests.
You know you’re a FRYSC coordinator when you get excited about finding new lice combs. They even light up! 😂
D’Wayne N Kathryn Prince Superman!!!
😳🤣🤣🏃🏻♀️
You know you’re a FRYSC coordinator when you go to pick up a donation and they give you extra, but it is taller than the back of your truck and you have to drive 25 miles per hour back to the center praying it doesn’t fall off!!! Constance Carnell Blane
You know you’re a FRYSC Coordinator when you go on a home visit, extension cords stretching across the hill to nearby trailer. You’re met at the porch by an Amazon woman with gang tattoos standing ready to fight…until she realizes who I am and why I was there. Her attitude changed immediately and she was quite friendly. I have to say I was a little fearful at first!
you know when you’re an FRYSC coordinator when you do a home visit and knock on door and they ask for password…💁🏻♀️
You know you are a FRYSC coordinator when a child hugs you in the hallway and says “my bugs are jumping today” 😂😂😂😂😂😂
You know you are a FRYSC coordinator when you go on a home visit and realize you have walked in on a drug transaction. You talk to mom very quickly about why you’re there and then when you finally get out the door, you’re so nervous you try to get in their car instead of yours!!
You know you’re a FRYSC when people donate dirty underwear and socks to your center. 🤢
You know you are a FRYSC Coordinator when you a pull up at a house and you honk the horn because of the attack dogs in the driveway only to see their license plate that says “Honk if your horny!” Let’s just say no more honking from this gal!!!! 😂😂😳
You know your a FRYSC coordinator when you keep tax exempt certificates in your glove box for those unexpected finds/purchases.
I am the “no longer an official but always at heart” coordinator😉❤️
You know you are a FRYSC Coordinator when you think you can’t possibly take one more ridiculous task, that it can’t get any weirder – and you at the same time know God created this job just for you.
#insanityanyone?❤️
Thanks for all the laughs! Love you all!
❤️Mel
We should do a book of these for NCO!
You know you’re a FRYSC Coordinator when you make home visits all day with the Reading Coach and find a beer can Christmas tree at the last home to which you must discretely snap a pic and send to your principal to let her know this summed up your day! 🤣
You know you’re a FRYSC Coordinator when you can deal with the BUGS (head lice and bed bugs) all in the same day without flinching. 🤣🤣🤣
You know you’re a FRYSC Coordinator when you spend all morning loading your Tahoe with food you’ve been collecting, go inside for one last box and when you come out your Tahoe is gone!! I had left my purse in the passenger seat with my fob in it so they were able to auto start the vehicle. I’m freaking out the principals are freaking out! The police come! They locate my Tahoe so a chase pursues! Turns out that the local car dealership came to pick up another teachers exact Tahoe for service and took mine instead!!!
You know you are a FRYSC Coordinator when you Roll up your pant legs to avoid the roaches from crawling up your legs!🤪
👉When 10 minutes into the home visit you realize the Mother on the opposite end of the couch has something alive clenched between her hands. When you finally ask what she has there she lets the pet snake rise up from her hands. 😳
A sweet one – you know you are a FRYSC coordinator when you get a Mother’s Day card from high school boys who don’t have a mom ( and these boys are very BIG Pacific Islander kids which makes it even sweeter.)
Had a lady answer the door one time buck naked and said sorry honey I was in the tub.
if you worry about the foul and farm animals after a home visit 😟
When a mom answers the door in only a small blanket (barely covering things) and her toddler locks her out of the house.
You know you are a FRYSC COORDINATOR if you’ve ever taken some of your personal kids gifts out from under your Christmas tree three days before Christmas to make sure that some other kid got a gift and there’s just no time to go shopping.
You know you are a FRYSC coordinator if you’ve looked at an unappreciative parent and said, “ Jesus only got three gifts and your child ain’t no better.” Even the nicest coordinators have their breaking point. 🤪
You know your a FRYSC Coordinator when you go to deliver gifts and roll down the hill and loose your keys to your office and watch. When you go back to find the keys they are excited because they thought I was bringing more gifts.
That happened! The guidance counselor said I blushed but we were so happy to get our form signed !
When you’ve had a dead rat thrown on you and a 3 year old pees on you – mom was still asleep while all was happening … at 2 pm 🤣😭🤪😂🥱😫
Y’all this all needs to be published in a book!!!
You know you’re a FRYSC Coordinator when you’ve visited parents at many different places of employment but you draw the line at going to the local strip club where several school mommas work. 😊
Went on a home visit to get paperwork signed-
Heard a thumping sound-
Turned around to see a goat walking on the hood of my Jeep-
Guy yelled out “barbecue, get off that truck”….
I asked him, is that his name or his future?
The man answered- “both”…🤣🤣
You know your a FRYSC Coordinator when you go on a home visit and the mom says “Y’all don’t go in the living room, there has been snakes in there today!” Then you turn around and two large dogs almost eat your face off. Other coordinators screams “Run” and you sprint to your car!
You know you’re a FRC coordinator when you do a home visit to help a Latino family complete enrollment paperwork and as you’re leaving they tell you to wait long enough for mom to go out back to the garden to give you a watermelon to show their appreciation.❤️🍉🥰
Now, on a funny note. When you and your assistant go on a home visit and as you’re pulling in the drive the KSP is pulling out. The dad meets us outside with a shotgun in hand. He tells me that he likes me (probably because I’m not the police) but he REALLY likes my assistant😍because she “looks like Crystal Gayle” and then proceeds to try to impress her by showing her his Civil War re-enactment membership card. 😂🙄
The stories we could tell!!! #year26 #lovemyjob
These really need to go in a book or something…they are hilarious. #WhateverItTakes 😂
You know you’re a FRYSC coordinator when you have to borrow a truck/SUV at least once a week to deliver backpack food, Christmas gifts, cleaning supplies, etc.
You know you are a FRYSC Coordinator when you go to check on a truant student, no one will answer the door, see something moving in the backseat of the car in the driveway, you automatically assume it’s the student, you go and look in the tinted window to see a half dressed adult hiding in the back of the suv. It was very cold outside.
You know you’re a FRYSC Coordinator that is a FRYSCKy Board Member if some of your strongest friendships are formed with people from all across the state and you do what seems to be a second job’s worth of work because, yes, you are committed (or need to be) but also so that you get to see these crazy people 5 times (sometimes more) a year. I love my Coalition Board Member Peeps!!! Miss you all!!!
For my friend Charis…you know you’re a FRYSC Coordinator if you deliver to someone an expensive tempurpedic bed donate for them and they call you to please come pick it up and bring a different one because you have ruined their marriage because they just can’t make love on it…the message included the info that Puddin and Franky (Not sure who or what these are) are the only ones that enjoy the bed. All was good though…they kept it clean with a rubber sheet.
Your family knows you are a Frysc coor because you force them to volunteer and beg them for school supplies, clothing, furniture, etc.
You know you are A FRYSC Coordinator when you take families to Walmart school clothes shopping.Mom disappears and the little boy says”Ms.Becky mom,shoes cop what part of this do you not understand”.Mom had been arrested for stealing $2 flip flops and her son was the one that told on her.
You know you’re a FRYSC Coordinator when a young man (6th grader) comes up and says, “Ms Rita. Do you have shoes for me? I’ve duct taped mine together but mornings like this when it rains my feet get wet.” (Not socks but feet as he didn’t have socks on.) so I go to Walmart and get him some and bring them back to school. I get him socks as well. Now I know this story is all familiar to so many of you…here’s the thing. After putting his new socks and shoes on, he hugged me and said, “I am so glad you don’t have a real job Ms Rita. Who would take care of us if you did?” And he smiled. And walked away. Then I cried. ❤️
Because the love you showed him could NEVER be a job…it is part of who you are and children recognize it.
You know you are a FRYSC, if you go to deliver Easter baskets and one of the places is their place of employment, this year one being a liquor store.
You know you are a FRYSC, if you work more hours in your building than anyone else, including the administration (and you wouldn’t have it any other way!)
You know your a FRYSC Coordinator when your volunteers go out to deliver school meals and back pack food and when they get back they inform you they bought a baby peacock from the bootlegger when they dropped their lunches off!!!!! 🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️(Missie Lowe)
You know you’re a FRYSC when your emergency clothing stock just went from socks and underwear to face masks!
If you accompany a non English speaking mom through childbirth in order to translate for her and if you sit at a Dr office with another non English speaking mom during 9-11 trying to explain to her what was happening.
So true Laura Carroll KessansKessans.I did that last year when I bought my vehicle
Told the sales guy has to be an SUV
It’s my first year so…. Dead bugs in the donations? Doesn’t seem like I’d win in a competition.😂🤷♀️
When you pull up to a home where two pigs are roaming around the front yard and the kids run out to tell you, “watch out for that one he’ll bite you.”
You know you are a FRYSC coordinator when you end up in the middle of a drug bust on house you have done multiple truancy home visits to.
… when you are picking up and delivering a 24 hour urine sample ( from a student) to the lab at the hospital on a Sunday morning because grandma (the caregiver)can’t drive 🤷♀️
… when you are greeted at the door by a three legged dog and a dad posing in the door in JUST his boxers like he’s the cover shot of a magazine (the whole time I’m trying to talk to him ) 😳🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️
….when you have a 12 year old student who just needs a stable home to be successful and he spends the next 6 years living under your roof and refers to you as his brother.
when you are measuring dirty little feet for shoes and little girl is holding her favorite rooster, and he flies off over your head…
You know you’re coordinator if you knocked on a door and could hear someone upstairs,(window open), and they were grunting and moaning. Your scared they are hurt and you might need to call an ambulance but as you reach for your phone you hear a male voice and smell the sent of a cigarette…..leave info on the door and walk away
When you get a call from superintendent letting you know a landlord was literally delivering a delinquent renters trailer to the front of the school property whose gate was locked because that **** at the FRC was supposed to get the rent from people to pay him.
When you as coordinator is working on sick day doing “whatever it takes” and you tell your secretary to cover while you lie down behind screen on couch for rest, fell asleep to be awakened by the Superintendent standing over you.
Norma Meek
Tammy Gay
These are wonderful stories!
You go to visit a mom about numerous issues and she comes to the door wrapped in a comforter and hands you crumpled dollar bills for a field trip. Yes, I knew she danced for her livelihood!
You have to ask “Is that poop, mud, or chocolate?” You dont know? Hang on, I gotta glove-up.