“It's actually kinda a good thing that things are shut down in this Covid thing, because there's lots of things big and small that need fixing. Maybe the adults will catch up.”
“Ain't it the truth, Grayson, ain't it the truth.”
Six-year-old Grayson Ludlow and eight-year-old Gracie Trent were building a city, with Grayson building the buildings and Gracie laying out the streets with construction paper trees on the Trent porch. Their adults – eventually all of them – watched in astonishment while listening to the conversation of Lofton County's future architectural power couple.
“I mean, when you keep coming to the playground and see a broken swing, something is wrong," Grayson said as he put down another Lego building next to the tree Gracie had built for it.
“It is, and it's something wrong with the adults, because there is an Edwina or Milton in every family,” Gracie said.
“Yeah – you're gonna have Milton working on a moon launcher or Edwina breaking bad over you not calling somebody over the broken swing,” Grayson said.
“Yeah,” Gracie said. “see, if folks would fix the swings and let kids kick toward the moon, all this could be avoided, but instead we gotta have Milton putting Vaseline on slides and then running up the ladder and going head first to try to get height or Edwina getting some politician's phone number and messing up his entire day.”
“Or even both on the same day,” Grayson said.
“Ain't it the truth, and that's just a lot,” Gracie said. “All that air space and ear space.”
“But see, Papa says it all the time: you can choose your sins but you can't choose what happens next,” Grayson said. “So, if folks gotta ground their planes so Milton can get through, or folks gotta get a hearing aid because Edwina, that's just what folks get.”
“I don't know if Milton can run that fast, though,” Gracie said.
“Yeah, but you gotta plan for everything,” Grayson said. “Ground space for an emergency landing has gotta be cleared too.”
“Yeah, so now we have ground space, air space, ear space,” Gracie said, “or they could just keep the swings up.”
“It's a whole lot easier,” Grayson said as he completed that portion of the subdivision they were visiting.
