Child's Play

Well, last week was a great week. You ever have those kinds of weeks where you revisit your childhood for a moment or two and it just makes the week worth doing all over again? Yeah, it was that kind of a week.

I was on a not so happy bus...no tinted windows, no A/C. It was nap time and there did not seem to be any good seat in the bus to nap on. It seemed as if everywhere I went, the sun was just piercing the back of my retina. I was becoming quite disenchanted since I really wanted a nap and there was 20 minutes to kill...perfect duration for a power nap.

Becoming frustrated I remembered all you need for a fort is a couple blankets, two or three kitchen chairs and a flashlight. Well, since I wanted to sleep, a flashlight was not needed. But then I was filled with terror and fear!!! I did not have any kitchen chairs for the fort walls! Then I remember where I was...silly me. A forty foot school bus is full of seats which would do just fine. Feeling proud of myself for working through these first two trouble areas, I reached for the blankets. AHH!!! NO BLANKETS!!! I forgot a bus does not come equipped with the hall closet full of blankets as my mother's home does. But wait!!! I brought a jacket because it was cold when I woke up. So, with no flashlight, bus seats and a jacket I made a fort. Good thing I am 28 because if I was faced with such poor resources with the pressures of reducing retinal-solar burning at the age of 10, (the last time I built a fort) I probably would have cried like a little kid when their hot dog bun splits freeing the hot dog to plummet 12-18 inches onto the plate to it's death.

Sleeping in a fort is great. In fact, it was the best sleep I have had since I was 10 when I built forts in my mother's kitchen.