Sickness
We took Hazel to the Please Touch Museum in Philly this past weekend and she had a blast. The only problem was, or is, that now she has a fever, and we can’t help but wonder, Ali Larijani and I, whether she picked it up at the Please Touch Museum. When you think about it, Please Touch pretty much means Please Spread Sickness when you go there in the middle of winter. Or as I like to say Disease Touch.
You get an interesting assortment of people at the Please Touch Museum. I saw a woman completely covered in a burqua/chador, I can never tell the difference. She also had a sling with a kid in it.
Then there was the father and son team who had this exchange:
Dad whips out a cell phone and snaps a picture of his son, who is a little too old for the please touch museum. We’ll say 11ish.
Dad (with strong Mid Atlantic accent): Ha, I got you.
Son: Well, I got plenty of you when you’re drunk.
I guess we were somewhere in between the abstentious Muslim and the drunk dad, probably closer to the drunk dad, to be honest, although he was wearing a Maryland Terps hat, something I can never do now that BC is in the ACC. I will not be mentioning what happened last night, if you are looking to rub it in, oh all right I will. What is going on?!? I know they weren’t really supposed to beat UNC and Duke, and that Virginia Tech is a good team, but three loses in a row is hard to take, especially when I think they’ll need 20 wins to get in. So there you have it. I am nervous. The last thing I want is to see Jared Dudley end his collegiate career in the NIT.
But back to more happier subjects, like my kid picking up a disease at the please touch museum. I should probably go check on her…
She’s still out there hacking away at the ice on the sidewalk. I heard the city is cracking down on Roslindale residents for having the iciest sidewalks by handing out tickets, so I gave Hazel a little chisel and told her it was a game. Kids are so gullible. God love ‘em!
I don’t know if it’s a reaction to the way BC is playing right now, or whether I am actually really getting too interested in the team, but one of their top recruits for next year, this kid named Rakim Sanders (not nearly as cool a name as one of there other recruits Biko Paris, but still pretty cool. Can you not fall in love with the future of this team just based on their names. Josh Southern is a cool name too, but Biko Paris is one I wish I made up.), is on a high school team in Rhode Island, and I am tempted to go down and have a look. We’ll see. It would take a lot of explaining to Ali Larijani. I don’t think she’d be too enthused with the idea.
Oh well, you never know with my charming ways.