Escapade

"Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart." Confucius

Railroad Museum 2010

escapade = a daring or adventurous act, often one that is disapproved of by others

I admit I have a rebellious streak and I've been trying to figure out exactly how it started.  I thought maybe it started in elementary school but I can trace an event back to kindergarten leading me to the conclusion I was a baby rebel even before then.

I didn't like this kindergarten classroom.  The girls played together on one side of the classroom while the boys played together on the other. I actually remember making the conscious decision not to be like everybody else.  I was going to show them how to mix things up and went directly to the pile of colorful bristle blocks where the boys were building a tower.

There was a bratty fat girl in my class with dirty blond bangs cut straight across her forehead watching the whole thing go down.  I can't remember her name but I remember her dress.  It was mustard yellow with tiny white daises on which she wiped bugers from her runny nose with one hand while holding a doll with kinky hair in the other.  She began the wicked sing song chant.  You know the one where seemingly innocent kids try not to seem so evil by singing something vile instead of saying it.   It was something to the effect: you like boys.  I do like boys.  I like them alot but McFatty Bugers was not going to tell me what to do much less shame me about it.

My parents taught me to be respectful so I went to the likewise forgettable kindergarten teacher and told her McFatty Bugers was teasing me to get the girl in trouble.  Ms. Forgettable didn't react fast enough for me so I had to pretend my feelings where hurt.  I'm glad she bought the act because I didn't want to have to bring out the tears even if it was acting.  I hate crying.  So Ms. Forgettable gathered all the children in a circle and she was so lame I can't even remember what she said but it shut the girl up. 

Guess who was wiping bugers on the blocks the next day?  By then I had moved on to painting.

Anyways . . . I need an escapade  what'll it be?

“We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.” Henry David Thoreau

"Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul." W. Somerset Maugham

"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man." Heraclitus