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The Kids Always Know
Reader
I was at my neighborhood pool this week and the kids (junior high age) were playing on the diving board. This is an old school city park pool and the diving board is pretty legit.
Anyway they were doing something I found very curious.
In kid parlance there is a dive called "walking the plank". At least that what it was called when I was a kid 40 years ago.
You can guess what this looks like.
The person whose turn it is walks off the diving board. The “joke” is that your last step is a DOOSY.
Ok back at my local pool with these 2023 kids.
Iteration
They made an iteration of the walking the plank dive.
They were walking off the board like they were sleep walking.
I asked what they were doing. The oldest among them said it was the Zombie dive.
Then something strange happened. One of the kids yelled out "watch this" and he did the zombie dive but he made change.
Starting at an imaginary smart phone and using his thumbs to type into his palms he did the zombie walk off the diving board.
The other kids immediately understood.
The next kid in line yelled out "This is my mom" - and repeated the same move with the imaginary smartphone with some twist that was not obvious to me but the kids understood.
The next 10 minutes I watched kids do "Smart Phone Zombie Dives" - my term.
I was going to write some pithy thought or social commentary about this experience but I think you get it.
Smartphones, Alcohol, Food, etc - The kids always know.
Hit reply and let me know your pithy or longer thought on my experience.
Always remember,
Never Give Up on Yourself. Never.
Terry Grier
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Terry R. Grier
Alcohol Free After Fifty
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