Girl Notices Lunch Lady Acting Strange, Jumps Into Action Before Calling Principal

The Iced Tea

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Kids looked at her as she stormed around the counter onto Mrs. Forney. Katie could see that the lunch lady wasn’t shaking, as her nonna said would happen when someone was having a seizure. But she could tell the woman was in pain.

Her face was contorted, and she kept mumbling slurry things that Katie couldn’t understand. “The iced tea,” Katie said, remembering Mrs. Forney had been drinking the iced tea before she fell over.

Thinking it was some kind of medicine, she reached for it and opened the bottle.