Dreams do come true

Just today, Justin age 9, fulfilled three of his lifelong dreams:

1. He broke a window with a rock. It was a double-pane window from I’m not sure where. He says it was back by our brush pile. I do not recall. I know it wasn’t installed anywhere. I suspect it was our old kitchen window. He is telling me that it was.

2. He went inside a Clark gas station, which is one of those teeny tiny gas stations where the customer barely has room to turn around, but the big wigs still decide to fulfill the tiny space with racks to increase potential spot sells. This store was so small three pop coolers (and yes, I mean coolers not machines) sit outside the store….

3. He went inside a laundromat. He pronounces that word – lawn dro mat. My dad used to call it a warshateria because that word wash has an r in it don’t you know. Nine year olds do not always get sarcasm. (Duh, he says.)

In recent weeks, he has also held a small python snake. Pythons do not take directions from photographer very well hence the missing head. It was alive, and it did have a head. It even did “number one” on another kid in a later group. The mom assures me it smells bad and lots of it. She had to buy her son a replacement shirt from the gift shop, and no, they did not give him the shirt.

And a tarantula:

So keep working on making your dreams come true. If it can happen to him, it can happen to you.

Thanks for playing.