Kindergarten Traffic Cop
Yesterday I was walking around downtown, which consists of a lot of walk-walk-walk a block, stop, wait for the crosswalk light...walk-walk-walk a block, stop, wait for the crosswalk light...walk-walk-walk a block, stop, wait for the crosswalk light, and so forth.
At one crosswalk there was a mommy pushing her little toddler boy in one of those plastic fake car/motorcycle kid's toys, the kind with the long metal rod sticking out the back with the ergonomic handle. You know, the one that makes the kid feel like he's really driving the car/riding the bike, only his mommy is really pushing him?
He was all decked out in his little coat and helmet, and as we were waiting for the sign to change to "WALK", he had his little hand in the air as if to authoritatively tell everyone behind him, "People, it is not safe to go. Stand back." It was cute and a few of us noted that to his mom. She said, "Just wait. When it turns, he will give the thumbs up sign."
He sat there looking at the crosswalk signal with great intensity, and the nanosecond it turned, his tiny little thumb popped up. They went down towards the red "DON'T WALK" sign at the next intersection, where his hand shot up again.
At one crosswalk there was a mommy pushing her little toddler boy in one of those plastic fake car/motorcycle kid's toys, the kind with the long metal rod sticking out the back with the ergonomic handle. You know, the one that makes the kid feel like he's really driving the car/riding the bike, only his mommy is really pushing him?
He was all decked out in his little coat and helmet, and as we were waiting for the sign to change to "WALK", he had his little hand in the air as if to authoritatively tell everyone behind him, "People, it is not safe to go. Stand back." It was cute and a few of us noted that to his mom. She said, "Just wait. When it turns, he will give the thumbs up sign."
He sat there looking at the crosswalk signal with great intensity, and the nanosecond it turned, his tiny little thumb popped up. They went down towards the red "DON'T WALK" sign at the next intersection, where his hand shot up again.
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