As this apparently didn’t include me I found myself more of a reject than ever. Most kids had practice every day. A lot of them whinged about it but I wouldn’t have minded. Instead of playing cricket I wandered around looking for something to do. One day when they were short of parents to help in the canteen, I got pulled out of the queue and asked to serve behind the counter, which was fun, and then one of the teachers saw me helping the Prep kids at the canteen and signed me up to hang out in their playground sometimes, to look after them. She said I was good with little kids. It was lucky she never saw me with Callan and Pippa. I didn’t mind, but – it was something to do, and they did crack me up sometimes with the stuff they said. One very serious little guy called Franklin came up to me one day and pointed at a boy called Marley, and said, ‘Josh, Marley just said the F word.’ I was pretty shocked but I said to him, ‘You better tell me exactly what he said, Franklin.’ ‘He told me I was an idiot.’ ‘An idiot, huh.
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