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Thursday, May 30, 2013

Overheard on the playground at PS 176

A kid who looks to be in fifth grade walks onto the playground. He's wearing a backpack and is eating Cup of Noodles. He has three disposable water bottles of varying emptiness in one side pocket of his backpack.

Another could-be-fifth-grader who is sitting on the spidery-web climbing ropes says:
"First thing in the morning and you're eating Cup of Noodles."
"You used to eat these all the time."
"Yeah. I didn't even eat breakfast this morning. It's a family crisis, son."

I felt like I was listening to two twenty-something roommates discussing their lives. It was weird. Deston seemed very young with his pretend spider-web game.

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