(me, in the gazebo, today)
(me, in the gazebo, tonight)
I am writing this from the gazebo in the middle of the park in the middle of town, which I seem to have made my office for this trip. It's like 11pm and I am being eaten alive by mosquitos, all for the sake of e-mail and blogging.
A kid who lookd like he was in fourth grade or so just ran up to me from a house half a block away."Who are you?" the kid asked.
"Who are you?" I replied.
"Who are you?"
"Who are you?"
Then the kid ran away.
Update, five minutes later: Turns out I had to post this in haste because the kid was part of a group of older kids who were engaged in some kind of nighttime rock fight that began moving toward the gazebo at a speed at which I was uncomfortable. So now I am doing this update from my car. I suppose one of the kids could hit my car with a rock. If so, I will drive across the park grass and run him down. I would have never said something like that a year ago, but living in the city and on the East Coast: it toughens a boy up.
9 comments:
The suspense is killing me. Are you still alive?
...and is the 10-year-old?
who's taking all of these pictures? do you have a posse complete with photographer?
You're lucky the marauding skateboard gang wasn't out, too, but maybe it was too early for them. I used to see them at 3:00 a.m. when I got off work. Manson has some MEAN streets.....
~pj
Oh, you didn't pick up this attitude up in the city. It's all you; just need a little kid in Iowa to try it out on!
It's such a JF story! Especially when the gang appears and you must flee.
Why isn't Iowa "IW" instead of "IA" ..
Is it just me or do you have an endless supply of geography/geographical culture-related shirts?
See now, if you had been a bit nicer, you might have found yourself some new playmates in your childhood town. Regression at home is understandable, especially as the baby in a big family.
But you feel bad about saying it: You can take the boy out of the midwest but you can't take the midwest out of the boy. Erm, Cambridge = big city??
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