What I Learned at the Playground
1. Once kids reach about the age of 8, parents evidently feel that they no longer need any sort of supervision and let them wander the neighborhood alone all evening long. 2. There isn't much that is productive for kids ages 8-15 to do on a playground. 3. If you are the first to fall off of the monkey bars, you are a "punk-ass white boy". 4. If the white lady glares at you when you say racist comments, you will, instead of understanding the intent of the glare, change your statement to: "punk-ass mexican". 5. That pre-teen girls come to the playground to flirt with pre-teen boys. 6. That it makes my stomach hurt to have to go to the playground when it is filled with the big kids. 7. That practicing swear words while climibing the jungle gym makes you seem really tough to all of your friends. 8. That I will, at some point, want to punch somebody's kid in the head. That kid won't be mine. I won't know whose kid it is, because I