Urban Track n Field

We ran over to the neighbor's to play for a few minutes last evening. The other two moms and I, and the total of 9 children were milling around the yard. Suddenly the moms and I noticed that the 8 big ones (not Keian) were all standing around SOMETHING in the yard in the kind of semi-circle that tells you they have found something nasty. Well, it wasn't a maggoty mouse or anything, just a pile of dog poop.

As my neighbor ranted about the neighbor who didn't pick up after her dog, the 8 big kids organized themselves oldest (10) to youngest (3) into a line and took turns running and jumping over it. They were having a great time and the moms just about peed their pants. We tried to act adult and tell the kids to stop but it was pretty hard with the tears squirting out of our eyes and gasping for breath.

We said it was sad that the suburban kids had nice tracks with hurdles and our poor city kids had to jump over dog poop.