Sunday, August 18, 2002

Sunday afternoon. Playground.
Two boys, aged around 11 and 8 tied a long piece of rubber hose around the ankles of a little boy lying beneath the monkey bars. They were attempting to pull the little boy up by his ankles using the rubber hose slung off one of the bars like a pulley. Surprisingly, or perhaps not so surprisingly, the little boy, who must be around 4 or 5, was just as enthusiastic if not more, and was happily complying to instructions given in their various attempts to make the experiment work. Unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately, none of the boys had enough strenght and the experiment was abandoned halfway.

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