Trials and Tribulations

KoKo was doing homework on Sunday evening. She had to look up newspaper articles and write a short summary of them. In the Northern Watch she came across a story about an elderly man who was mowing a ditch when he tipped over and was pinned under the tractor and mower. She was sad for the man and Kristie, KoKo, and I talked about it. Then she went back to finishing her summary. But before she finished, KoKo paused and said, “But I don’t get it. Where did the tractor come from?”

Both Kristie and I couldn’t help but laugh. For we both knew he was mowing the ditch with a tractor and mower. Poor KoKo was picturing a man with a push mower and then a tractor coming along the road, or perhaps falling from the sky, and crushing him.

We had quite a good time with that.

Then last night KoKo came home from the varsity volleyball game. Now for KoKo these games are more social events than athletic. Kristie asked how things went with her friends. KoKo told us how one of her teammates just came home with her (KoKo just assumed she would keep walking when they arrived at our sidewalk, but her friend just accompanied her right into the our house) after practice and then accompanied her to the game.

Kristie asked KoKo if her teammate sat by her at the game.

“No,” KoKo said, “once she got to the game she took off and never said a word to me again.” Poor little thing got used for a place to stay between practice and the game.

“Then,” KoKo said, “while we were watching the game, Taylor (our neighbor, who is a year older than KoKo, and is her sometimes friend. But Tayler can get quite bossy and mean.) said she had seniority over me and forced me to move back on the bleachers.”

“What?” Kristie and I both said.

“Yeah, and then she wanted some of my popcorn!” KoKo said. I might add here that besides being bossy and mean, Taylor eats damn near everything in our house. Whenever Casey can’t find the Oreos or potato chips, he asks, “Has Taylor been over?” for they have either been consumed or hidden.

However, KoKo got a devilish grin on her face and added, “But I told Taylor, ‘this is my popcorn and I have seniority over it. So no you can’t have any!’”

Ha. Both Kristie and I laughed hard at that. KoKo is often meek and often gets hurt easily with that big heart of hers, but every once in awhile she whips out that sly humor of hers and just makes us laugh.