Wednesday, June 13, 2012

the log

I saw two young boys today moving a driftwood log that clearly weighed over a hundred pounds.  They had managed to get it from the shore where someone had hauled it out and wheel it on both their scooters towards the end of the dock.  Their intention was clear, to dump it off into the deep water and enjoy the splash.

I stopped them.  Calmly I explained that someone had worked hard to get that log out of the way so nobody's boat would run into it.  They turned their scooters around and took the log back.  A fun bit of play was taken away from them, replaced by perhaps a bit of civic responsibility.

These young boys had never thought about boats running into half submerged logs.  Why would they?  Kids aren't an evil lot.  They just don't know how to behave.  That's our job.

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