Funny, Funny Boy

Day 279

I’m online searching for new ideas for random acts.  I won’t lie.  It’s prompted by my friend Matt’s quip of “You do a lot of the same things.” Lately, he’s right. 

I type in “Random Act of Kindness ideas” on Google and within seconds I’m flooded with options.  Isn’t technology grand?  I click through a promising list of 100 and start to peruse.  Done it.  Done it.  Done it.  Done it.  Ahhh.

Here’s something I can work with, I think.  (I won’t tell you all I read because I’m sticking those in my back pocket for another day.  It’s safe to assume singing at a nursing home isn’t going to happen.  Even in a room full of semi-deaf patients, if I’m the singer, I don’t see any kindness in that option.) 

Instead I choose…. 

No, I’m not going to tell you.  I’m going to see if you can figure it out. 

It’s after-school and I’m pawing through the boys’ backpacks, looking for clues on how they spent their day.  After years of school life (and life with boys) I know I need more that their one-word answers to suffice my need for details. 

I pull F.’s vocabulary test from his home folder.  The teacher’s written in neat print letters across the front Great sentences!  I turn the page over to read them for myself. 

That’s when I stop.  Dead.      

“Uhh?  F?” 

“Yeah?” 

“What does this say?” 

Here, I’ll let you take a look.  What do you think it says?  Yeah, me too. 

I’m biting on my lip to keep from busting out laughing.  Great sentences! I think.  Was the teacher having a chuckle and wanted to alert me to the funny? 

“Clench to squeeze tightly.” 

I nod my head slowly.  Yes, of course.  I see it now. 

“Why what did you think it said?” 

“That.  That’s what I thought it said.”  I pull him into me and kiss his head and laugh. Random Act of Kindness Idea #68: Make someone laugh. I hope you’re laughing, too.