I Spit on You
Sometimes, I totally wish I could be a kid again. Really. With all of the inhibitions removed and the lack of self-consciousness, it would be a brilliant ride as an adult.
Today, I sat with the sun streaming on me through the glass of a bus stop and watched two little girls who were barely two feet tall. They stood opposite each other, one without any props, and the other with her lavender backpack. Hysterically, they assumed the positions of sumo wrestlers, one facing the other in uber-serious threat mode, lobbing feet back and forth in an absolutely funny pose fest.
These little girls faced off eye-to-eye as they lifted first one leg and then the other in their television mimicry of sumo. In turn, they spat upon the ground and then took their metallic floral sandals and tried to stomp out the spit bubbles, giggling insanely as they splatted each others’ creations on the sidewalk.
As we watched, they started spitting on each other in an effort to win whatever battle they had drawn up in their minds as they passed time awaiting the Golden Gate bus with the green and gold stripe down the length. One corn-rowed girl spat upon the other, running around the shelter crying, “That’s what you get. I spit on you. That’s what you get……” all two feet of her total unselfconscious wonder on display for the world to watch.
I utterly wish I could be two feet tall again, without inhibition, gleefully running around the sunlit sidewalk spitting on people who laughed with me in return.
I am laughing, so you must have hit the target with your volley.
Do you remember this song? We used to sing it as Summer Camp:
Oh I wish I were a little English sparrow
Oh I wish I were a little English sparrow
Oh I’d sitty on the steeple and I’d spitty on the people
Oh I wish I were a little English sparrow
This link will even take you to the annoying MIDI recording of it so you can sing along!
http://www.boyscouttrail.com/content/song/song-1129.asp
I often watch small children now with a desire to bring that honest, innocent way of being and join it to current life and awareness!
I do not remember that song. It’s awesome!! Thanks for sharing.
I do envy kids sometimes, with their total lack of inhibitions.
Ah, the curious case of Andra Benjamin B.
I never saw that movie. Is it good?
So glad that Lou weighed in…if there are two people I could see getting into a giggling good-natured spitting contest, it would be Lou and Andra….especially if they could turn it into a Rotary fundraiser.
Hmmmmmm. Rotary spit-a-thon…….
MTM, you hit the nail on the head, we’re both fairly goofy and love Rotary.
I don’t know how a Rotary Spit-a-Thon would go over, though. Still pondering.
How did I miss this yesterday? We may never know. But somehow, oh crap….. Oh crap. Talk to you tomorrow!