As seasons get ready to change, from one to the next, it seems that I always get preoccupied with them.  “Oh how I hate for Summer to go.”  “Winter is around the corner…. bllllllecccchhhhh.”

Truth be told, the Autumn Equinox isn’t until September 22.  So we still have about 24 days of Summer left.  Yet… everyone roasts a hotdog on Labor Day weekend, knocks back some suds…. and calls it a wrap.

Well NOT me.  I am hanging on to every stinking last day of Summer that I can.

You know.  Summer brings things.

Things I like.  You know……. cookouts, and swimming, and the great outdoors.  Flowers and wildlife.  The color green.  We get more energetic in the Summer.  People get in shape during the Summer.  Frisbees come out.  And Corn Hole.

We have Parades and Fairs and Festivals in the Summer.  Corndogs, and Circus Waffles, for crying out loud.  Yessir.  Good old summer.

I noticed a lot this past season.  Especially about Parades, as I attended a few.  Here is the big thing.  Kids THINK they want to be in Parades.  But.  the cold hard truth is this.  They don’t.  Parades are pretty dang boring…. really.  And once a kid gets in a Parade…. they regret it from start to finish.  They are miserable.

They say over and over in their little heads…. “When the heck can I get off this stupid flatbed truck?  And what are those confounded people waving at?  This is more boring…. way more boring than math class.”

I guess it could be that some of them are just hitching a ride some place.  But…… Riding on the parade float is the big lie for most of those kids.  There is WAY more going on in math class.   Or better yet.  Physics.

E=mc2
Yes.  Energy equals mass times the speed of light, squared.
No speed of light in parades.
Just ask those little masses on the backs of the floats.

Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you’re not really interested in order to get where you’re going. – Christopher Morely