Duct tape forever

I think that duct tape and teen services go together like peas and carrots, as my friend Forrest Gu-ump would say. Yesterday was the second day of my week-long duct afterschool duct tape program, and like last year, The Tape seems to attract all ages, personalities and economic classes of teens. Some of them are nice to each other and make pleasant (or unpleasant) conversation, and some of them are mean to each other in the same way they probably do every day at school, but regardless, they seem to have fun making purses, wallets, bracelets, roses, Ipod covers, and generally sticking themselves together with tape. I think the key to a successful duct tape program is the multicoloured tape you can purchase at craft stores such as Michaels - the tape comes in nearly every colour of the rainbow including hot pink. The only problem is that for less than a third of the amount of tape you get on the big silver roll, you are paying twice the price, but if your library can afford it, the colours will seal the deal, so to speak.

For the record, I'm in a slightly better mood today ... but then again I've only been here for 20 minutes and the druggie dropouts have only just arrived and have not yet started to test my patience. I wasn't wild about it being -20 with the windchill this morning, either.