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truepennySo I had to take the car in today to get new tires (last got tires in 1996, so not before time, really). Which meant getting up at 7:30 so as to be at the dealership at 8.
So I'm up, dressed, vaguely coherent, driving along one of the busier 4-lane roads in town, when traffic comes to a halt. Up ahead there are two city employees, in their ugly orange vests with reflective tape, standing in the road to stop traffic ...
... so that a duck and her large brood of ducklings can get across the road to the lake in safety.
Just for a second I was four years old again, and I was in Make Way for Ducklings. I just sat there grinning like a fool, knowing that this was worth getting out of bed for.
The duck wasn't in any hurry, serenely confident that the humans would do what they were supposed to. And the beauty of it is that, yes, we were.
Every once in a while, human beings get something right.
So I'm up, dressed, vaguely coherent, driving along one of the busier 4-lane roads in town, when traffic comes to a halt. Up ahead there are two city employees, in their ugly orange vests with reflective tape, standing in the road to stop traffic ...
... so that a duck and her large brood of ducklings can get across the road to the lake in safety.
Just for a second I was four years old again, and I was in Make Way for Ducklings. I just sat there grinning like a fool, knowing that this was worth getting out of bed for.
The duck wasn't in any hurry, serenely confident that the humans would do what they were supposed to. And the beauty of it is that, yes, we were.
Every once in a while, human beings get something right.
