For anyone who has been following my daily posts, you might remember about 8 months ago I was denied the opportunity to register my four year old in a program called “Advanced Kindergym” because she was neither “Advanced” nor “Kinder-ific” by the gym’s standards.
We continued the year enrolled in Gymnastics-For-Under-Achievers and then last week, the second last week of the session, I noticed something interesting.
There were three girls at practice that day, including Chloe.
Part way through the one hour lesson, the coach came into the waiting room and handed a yellow ticket to one of the other Mom’s from Chloe’s group.
She said, “Your daughter is invited to join Advanced Kingergym when you sign her up for the summer or fall session.”
The woman was elated. Like lottery-winner-elated. She made a quick phone call to her husband, “Honey, you’re never going to believe what just happened!”
I kept my head down, I glanced into the gym and I watched as the coach came out into the waiting room a second time.
This time, it was to give a yellow ticket to the other Mom in the group with the same news.
She was a little more reserved and simply said, “Thanks, my daughter will be so excited.”
I also thought that was strange. If I told Chloe, “You’re going to move into Advanced Kindergym” her first and only question would be, “is that gymnastics?”
While I whistled Meatloaf’s hit, “Two out of Three Ain’t Bad” I must admit, I was wondering where my ticket was.
And why yellow? Clearly the gym wanted to make a production out of it to get a buzz going so those invited to the Advanced Kindergym program would squeal with delight and make everyone else beg to pay the gym double the prices so they could be included next season. If they wanted to be discrete, the tickets would have been beige and written in invisible ink with a mystery-marker to decode the contents at a later date. Duh.
Our ticket never came.
Thankfully, when I asked Chloe if she would one day like to try “Advanced Kindergym” she asked me if that was a type of Triscuits cracker.
