The performance was to be held in our school cafeteria, which doubled as a small gymnasium. The school administration referred to it as the cafetorium. This word should be stricken from the English language immediately. It signals to children that food should be followed by frolic. At lunchtime we would wolf down our bologna sandwiches and pretzels so we would have time to move the tables out of the way and play basketball. And every day, some kid would blow his lunch.
