Zoo Day
When you go to a zoo, the differences between the animals and the frantic little kids running around aren’t so different. I went with miss Ggibbings to help babysit. She had to look after 4 kids and 1 big kid, who we all know is me. I often forget how much energy kids have and that day reminded me of the capacity of their imagination and curiosity.
Besides having them lose their hats over the fences and me having to get them, the worst were these two little Cambodian boys we were looking after. People could’ve easily mistaken them for escaped chimps the way they were acting. They chased birds, walked on ahead without halt and knocked on every piece of glass there. At one point they said they were ‘tired’ and I had to carry both of them around. Not long after said ‘fatigue’, they were back at it again, chasing the birds with the cunning and stamina of tiger cubs. Speaking of which, they pretended to be tigers and left my arms looking like scratching poles.
I saw an elephant sniff his own poo and a monkey drink his own pee, maybe kids aren’t so bad.
Kodak 200 / MG-1
