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azurelunatic) wrote2002-12-09 11:17 pm
azurelunatic) wrote2002-12-09 11:17 pm
The Swingsets
When I was in fourth grade and my friend Lynn was in fifth, and occasionally when we were in fifth and sixth, we would spend some recesses together sitting on the little swings: there were two of them attached to the little tower that had two levels and a fireman pole, and one of the horizontal ladder things connecting it to the main tower structure on the graveled part of the playground.
There were two swings, and they weren't the popular ones, which meant that she and I could sit there together talking and swinging for the whole recess, often.
In those days, I was in love. Well, I always seem to be in love, but this was special. His name was Jay, and he would actually interact with me. He would climb to the top of the local tower, and brush snow down from the top of it onto me. That was funny, and he was smiling at me, so I would giggle, and he would dump more snow on me.
Lynn thought it was cute, and put up with the occasional overenthusiastic sprinking of snow that got on her. She teased me. I teased her back when I figured out why the redheaded guy, Chris, was putting on a one-man comedy act for us, and why Lynn would turn red and giggle. She liked Chris, and Chris liked her!
Technically, throwing snowballs was against the rules, but Jay wasn't throwing any snow, just pushing it off the tower. Granted, he would import snow from the ground and put it on top of the tower to push it off, but that was just a technicality. He never got in trouble for it.
There were two swings, and they weren't the popular ones, which meant that she and I could sit there together talking and swinging for the whole recess, often.
In those days, I was in love. Well, I always seem to be in love, but this was special. His name was Jay, and he would actually interact with me. He would climb to the top of the local tower, and brush snow down from the top of it onto me. That was funny, and he was smiling at me, so I would giggle, and he would dump more snow on me.
Lynn thought it was cute, and put up with the occasional overenthusiastic sprinking of snow that got on her. She teased me. I teased her back when I figured out why the redheaded guy, Chris, was putting on a one-man comedy act for us, and why Lynn would turn red and giggle. She liked Chris, and Chris liked her!
Technically, throwing snowballs was against the rules, but Jay wasn't throwing any snow, just pushing it off the tower. Granted, he would import snow from the ground and put it on top of the tower to push it off, but that was just a technicality. He never got in trouble for it.