Clarification

I kid you not. I just got a phone call from a genuinely concerned relative wondering about the bars James is gripping in a recent post. "Is he in jail?" No, he is not.

In my efforts to pair a funny expression with a funny story, I badly misfired on the context front. The picture is from our adventures at Baby Animal Day. The bars adorn a child-size caboose on the small train we rode there around the farm. No, the school does not have such a facility to punish latecomers and other miscreants. Although, if it did, I think all the students would clamor to go inside it --  it's that alluring.

Here's a shot of the caboose. The children were locked in from the outside, but I'm pretty sure that was only a safety measure while the train was in motion. Pretty sure.

As you can see, James made it out.