WALKABOUT
WALKABOUT
When I am feeling cooped up, I like to leave the house, on foot and walk until I see or do something, experience something that makes it feel like leaving the house was worthwhile. Sometimes I will walk for miles. Sometimes feet.
Today, two blocks from my hotel I saw a line of thirty Japanese school children, ages 3-5, standing in the rain with two fireman teaching them to use a fire hose. Each child would get three seconds with the hose, turn it on, spray the side of the building, turn it off.
I watched them for several minutes, hoping that one might accidentally open the hose up full blast, shooting a child several feet into the air.
It did not happen.
So I went and got breakfast.