Tonight was “Cubannapolis” at Pack meeting. All of the boys had to build a car from a cardboard box and paint it to make it spiffy. Then they “wore” the car and raced around a field. There were pit stops. The Pit Crews (parents) had to “wash the windshield” (read: spray our sons in the face with a spray bottle and wipe it off with a paper towel), “refuel” (dump a dixie cup full of water in their mouths), and “change out the tires” (take off their butt-smelly shoes and put them back on). It was hilarious. Some of the boys, you could tell, had spent hours on their cars, making them look almost like actual cars. Intricate “flame” spray paint and what not. Ten minutes before Pack meeting I was taping on a rear spoiler and spray painting it because Jachin said his car looked like “a dumb blue box”. Well, nothing says race car like a spoiler. And he believed having a spoiler would make him run faster. Who am I to tell him that cutting out a rectangle of cardboard, painting it blue, and taping it to a box won’t make him run any faster?? And run, he did. Of course, the high quality spoiler fell off during the second lap, but he didn’t notice… so I did a quick ninja-pick-up and smacked it back on during the third lap.
Ultimately, he didn’t really place. Even the spoiler couldn’t make up for the 3 year age gap between him and some of the other runners. But it was stinking funny to watch.
(Note: Jachin is on the far left… and yes, he is wearing his car backwards…)
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Oh, what fun! Your boy is a cutie, spoiler or no.
Comment by Leslie — June 27, 2007 @ 1:34 am