Miles "The Rock" Johnson

While at work last Thursday, I received a call from the medical paraprofessional (I don't know her real title) at Houghtaling Elementary School. It started like this, "Just to let you know, Miles is going to be fine". It turns out Miles disagreed with the music being played in the kindergarten room and using his best problem solving skills, pulled a nice sized rock from the tread of his shoe and stuffed it into his ear canal. Then, because a little muffled music is not good enough, he shoved it back down toward his ear drum. Bad luck for Miles. It just so happened that the principal was walking by the classroom when he explained to the teacher what he had done. It was his first trip to the principal's office as well. You can see by looking at the picture that he is sorry and won't be doing that again. By the way, the rock was extracted by the same doctor who examined Jim for the Coast Guard earlier this year. He has seen the insides of a couple Parrotts now:)