So me & B went to town today.
Peoples were
and
and
But... my spidey sense pulled me towards a few of them (yakO, more than a few
) and I began talking & they began coming alive...just like Frosty when he gots the magic hat back.
Then I sat in the car at one store & a Mom & son pulled in. I didn't really see her get out, but the son yells to me from the passenger window, "HEY!!! How ya doin?".
"Alright," says I. and then he begins talking... and talking... and talking... (pey, I got out & walked to the window beside him)
He was 'Alex'... 9 years old, just back from Tai Kwon Do where he'd broken a board (showed me
) and he wants a Light Saber & loves the Movie Gallery & on & on & on....
B then came out & I said, "See ya later, Alex." ......then his Mom comes out.
She was
. Not just at him. At life... at the world... and mostly at herself.
(those things I intuited...the pissededness I saw as she SCREAMED at Alex).
I was so thankful I'd listened to & loved him... if just for a few brief minutes.
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