Neighbors Alert Authorities About Boy With Free, Unscheduled Afternoon
Neighborhood listservs lit up yesterday with reports of a boy spotted kicking a can down a local street after school hours, seemingly with no afternoon activity to go to.
“I was shocked and saddened,” said Lisa M., who noticed the boy while ferrying her son, Jake, from his fencing class to his Suzuki violin lesson. “To think, in the year 2010, that a child could be forced to endure unsupervised time, just breaks my heart as a mother.”
There were additional unconfirmed sightings of the boy skipping over cracks to avoid breaking his mother’s back, blowing on dandelions, and lying on a hillside watching clouds roll by.
“Yeah, I’d like to see how that’s going to look on his college applications,” said one disgusted father.
