"But what ARE bleachers?"

The classroom is coming together at the beginning of the year, and they're starting to remember how to work independently. During writing time, I was working with a student at one table, and I heard this interchange at the table behind me:

Two girls, singing softly under their breaths: "She wears short skirts, I wear t-shirts, she's cheer captain, and I'm on the bleachers!"

And then one asks,

"Wait, do you know what bleachers are?"

"Yeah, of course!"

"... well, what ARE they?"

It then turned into an involved discussion of various different sporting arenas.

[Pop culture note: this is a Taylor Swift song called "You Belong With Me". Lyrics here]