Sunday, April 11, 2010

our park's a dump

(no photo for this post on account of nudity)
coco and i were at the park the other morning, just enjoying the sunny day and making a castle with damp sand, when something caught my eye. it was the bare bottom of a kid hovering over a mound of sand. it appeared as though he was practicing the ancient art of taking a crap in the great outdoors, right there next to the plastic playground slide.
i looked over at a nearby bench where three nannies were sitting, chatting away, unaware of the unsanitary occurrence i was witnessing. coco was too busy packing sand into a bucket to notice and the kid had stopped straining after producing nothing, so i decided to give the woman responsible for the kid a chance to react. but when no such reaction came and the boy's penis loomed in front of my face, i had no choice but to shout, "¡este niño se bajó los calzones! ¿quién viene con él?", which was a huge mistake because coco, who speaks spanish almost exclusively, immediately stopped what she was doing, turned around and proceeded to stare at the kid's genitals in amazement.
the whole thing obviously had a lasting impression on coco, who brought it up at dinnertime as the highlight of her day.