I’m eating lunch, sitting on a bench in the park blocks downtown.\u00c2\u00a0 A group of school children — maybe age 10 — a few girls and a couple of boys come running up — pacing past the two adults that are heading with them.<\/p>\n
“Teddy!\u00c2\u00a0 Teddy!\u00c2\u00a0 We Love you, Teddy!”<\/p>\n
A very strange comment, I don’t know what it means.\u00c2\u00a0 I look around.\u00c2\u00a0 And again with “Teddy!\u00c2\u00a0 Teddy!\u00c2\u00a0 We Love you, Teddy!”\u00c2\u00a0 And I see that they are running up to the statue of Theodore Roosevelt riding his horse.<\/p>\n
I admit to not having loved Teddy Roosevelt at that age, or any age, and am not sure I would have been as enthralled by a statue of him.\u00c2\u00a0 I do not believe that they ran up to old Abe Lincoln a couple blocks down in the same manner.\u00c2\u00a0 Anyway, one boy extols to the other boy that the Art Museum has pictures of naked women in it — though he reamins a unimpressed or unmoved — vaguely familiar territory if I had to try to place myself back to that age.<\/p>\n
Later in the day, I’m on the Max train, riding past the stops in Old Town.\u00c2\u00a0 There is a similar group of kids, age I’d guess 14, goofing off.\u00c2\u00a0 One boy mock dry-humps another boy for the amusement of the others in the group, and for reaction from the crowd.\u00c2\u00a0 I am staring blankly out the window, and they all wave and grimmace at me and flash\u00c2\u00a0wide grins and thumbs up signs,\u00c2\u00a0conferring that they know I saw\u00c2\u00a0a mock dry-hump.\u00c2\u00a0 I keep a faceless expression.\u00c2\u00a0 It occurs to me that a few years ago they might have ran after the Teddy Roosevelt statue, and that the kids running after that statue will be in that other situation.\u00c2\u00a0 Strange world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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