Don’t Ask Why

ORIGINALLY WRITTEN DAVID VOGEL
All winter you look forward to summer so you can get out of school, drink your dad’s lemonade and ginger ale drink, and go to the swimming pool.

All spring you look forward to those 95-plus degree days so your neighbor’s parents will allow the sprinkler underneath their trampoline, and you look forward to those sizzling hot days when it’s so hot all you can do is watch television in that nice, air-conditioned room.

Ha! Dumb heat. Well, your nine-month-awaited “paradise” is here. I only went to the public pool three times, and what happened? I was smothered in sun-block sauce and was then cooked to a hot, red crisp. Youuuuuch! I still think I need a higher-brand sun lotion.

The other day I was riding my bike home from the library because I had to feed the betta fish. (Yes, I’m the one with that betta vase.) I had a song from “Annie” stuck in my head, and I began to change the words. Here it is:

“The sun’ll come out tomorrow, bet your bottle of sunblock, that tomorrow, there’ll be heat. Just thinkin’ about tomorrow, sends the sweat tricklin’ down my forehead… I’ll get burned! Tomorrow, tomorrow, I’ll go swimmin’ tomorrow, you’re only a day away.”

Summer drama started a little more than a week ago. There are more than 20 kids participating, grades 1-8. As I mentioned in one of my previous articles, it’s called “OperaTunists.” It’s a play about a group of kids on a field trip learning about opera. That’s all I’m going to tell you other than that it’s pretty funny.

If you want to see it, contact our director Lynn Just for the date. Actually, we had a reporter from the Free Press there, but I didn’t catch her name.

I recently walked into the kitchen, and there was dog food strewn all over the floor. I figured the cat had done it again with with her “paw,” but I still can’t figure out how she lets him in….

The Arts & Crafts Fair seems so far away. September is only about three months away, but it seems like forever. I think there should be an Arts & Crafts Fair every six months. One in September and one in March.

The one in September would have fall, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s and Valentines stuff, while the one in March wouldn’t be as large, but would have summer stuff, like the Fourth of July and patriotic things.

That’s my thoughts, don’t ask why.

Someone who recently read my article said, “The poor kid has got his dad’s sense of humor….”

Don’t ask why.

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