So there I was, on a 10-K hike around the local lake early in the morning with the Human Tape Recorder.\u00a0 This was remarkable in itself, not because she’s not into hiking 10 kilometers, but because she’s 13 and usually sleeps past noon on weekends.\u00a0 Nevertheless, she had agreed that\u00a0getting up and stepping out seemed like a good plan that morning, and there we were.<\/p>\n
We’d been walking a little over an hour with about 2\u00a0kilometers to go, when I noticed that the trees – it’s a full canopy – cleared out in about 300, maybe 400\u00a0yards.\u00a0 It looked like the light at the end of a long, green tunnel, and I said, “Ah, there’s freedom!”\u00a0<\/p>\n
Then I looked at my 13-yr-old daughter and, thinking to perhaps add some\u00a0extra PT to our already industrious walk, asked her, “So, from here, looking at that break in the trees in the light there, if something big and hungry started chasing us right now, do you think you could run all the way to the light?”<\/p>\n
She turned her head, looked me up and down, and said, “I wouldn’t have to.”<\/p>\n
Well played, nasty evil wicked child, well played.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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