...8...9...10. Ready or not here I come.

While reading a human interest news story, fluff as it would be called in the biz, about a girl who hid so well during a game of hide and seek that the parents called in professional help. I’m not posting a link to the story because the child was found after over an hours worth of searching. Now do we throw the widen net and call these people bad parents for loosing track of their child? I’ve done that, albeit not for that long and on the opposite end of the scale this child has siblings who probably cheat like the dickens at hide and seek. So when the child is being looked for she was probably thinking the heck with you I’m not coming out when you are calling all in, all in, all in free. And it’s not ollie, ollie, oxen free… That makes not a bit of sense. Not that hide and seek is all that sensible of a game, other than life skills development of how far you actually have to go to find … oh say your keys if you don’t have an elephant. I have an elephant. The elephant doesn’t lose things. So if you don’t have an elephant I suggest you get one, because keys can hide in a lot of places. A lot of places. Yup they’ve been there too... No, not there that would be silly. Anyway point being you look and look until you find them in as the saying goes, it’s always the last place you look. Yup a true pearl of wisdom that one.

However, Like this kid I was hiding and hiding and hiding, and finally fell asleep in my hiding spot. If it’s that good a spot you don’t fess it up you keep it quiet because the only way you keep a secret between three people is if two of them are dead, or so said Mr. C-note Franklin. I wandered home afterwards because unlike the kid in the news story not too many people actually realized I was missing, as a matter of fact no one noticed. Which leads me to believe I was invisible long before even I realized it.

So kid was found, who wasn’t lost, I found myself but I wasn’t lost either. Well that’s different story and has nothing to do with hide and seek. Most likely this kid’s parents will be outcasts in their community and people will whisper behind their backs … they’re the really bad parents who lost their kid. Yeah I heard about that one she was missing for days. Hey in a few years watch it will be huge. Wolves and bats and gummy bears… oh me. I doubt anyone’s said that one before… mine. Yeah , nee ner.

Sadly this two year old has been banned from playing hide and seek now...FOREVER! Now, she’ll never find her keys, some one get her an elephant. Please for crying out loud. How can we expect this kid to be normal now.

Hey I get worked up about the fluff pieces. That is where all the real people live, you know under the plastic wrap. Oh, it’s raining. Yup, yup and my head hurts. Well’s it hurts for two reasons, wait three, four, oh a bunch… Imma take a shower maybe that will make it go away. You just have to love the new English that text messaging is creating. Imma means, “ I am going to” do what ever follows. Hey it saves over half the letters, who cares that the written word is dying in the thumb thumping grasp of our teenagers.

Imma shwr nw cya l8r


Have a great day and play nice in the neighborhood.

Ciao,




PS. So I gave benji his due respect in text and the elephant thing is biological public domain about them not forgetting where water is even after years of not going to the same place. I mean like a smart bomb right to the spot, pretty cool if you ask me but you didn’t but I told you anyway.

Peace