A Real "Reality Show"  By Keith Thompson  If you’re a school
board member, you know what it’s like to be recognized when you
are out in public. It usually happens when you are waiting in a
line, say at the post office, the bank, the dentist’s office, or
standing on the sidelines of your kid’s soccer match.  My least
favorite place to hear that inevitable question, “Hey, aren’t
you on the school board?” is the grocery store. At least, it was
my least favorite until I came up with a creative response to
the inevitable second question: “What’s it like to be on the
school board?”  Recently, I was racing through our local mega-
supermarket to pick up a few items. You know the store, the one
where the few necessities you need are located in the far
reaches of the outer galaxy of the store.  As I maneuvered
through aisles and zigzagged around other shopping carts to
scoop up a gallon of milk, a loaf of bread, and a dozen eggs, I
realized that 5 p.m. was definitely the wrong time to be in a
hurry. The parking lot was