A few weeks ago I was out front doing some chalk drawing on the driveway with Owen and Maya. We were busy playing and talking when all of a sudden it became very quiet from Owen's direction. He was focused, looking intently at the driveway and making an irregular line with the chalk.
Owen had found an ant and was now pushing his chalk behind it as it went on its way. It's safe to say the ant, meanwhile, had noticed what I'm sure looked to it like an enormous piece of pink chalk blocking out the sun wherever it went and had accelerated into a fast twisting pattern hoping to shake it ...
This kept on for a while until I saw Owen look up at me with a worried, slightly shocked expression. Indeed, the game was over.
The chalk finally managed to beat the ant to its destination.
Without missing a beat, Owen made an "X" over the ant at the point of intersection, just like the ones that gets drawn over the eyes of a cartoon character, like those "Spy vs. Spy" crows in Mad Magazine. The ant was gone and attention had been paid.
A couple of minutes later, the game began again and the second ant suffered the same fate.
Too bad. He had all the warning he needed.
If only he read Mad Magazine.
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