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I Miss My Cub Scout
It was one of those rare times when I was home alone on a Saturday. It was quiet, and I was busy with the mundane when I heard the door bell ring. There standing in front of me, all four feet and one inch, was a cub scout with collar flipped up and cap cocked to one side. His mom was at the curb. With great verve and ten year old inflection, he mustered his sales pitch with some long distance coaching from the curb.
I looked into his eyes, and I listened to what he said, and I responded, “sure” as I bought some “original caramel corn ” for this pack fund-raiser.
His sale had nothing to do with the great taste of caramel corn, but all to do with this little fella. See, I have a twenty year old son in college. Ten years ago, it was my son who had to gather his nerve and ring the doorbell while I stood, with fingers crossed, at the curb.
How ten years goes so fast.
I, then, told this young scout to tie his shoe lace and to watch his step down our steep front steps and closed the front door. An immediate rush of emotion enveloped me. I had lonely and distant feeling and I didn’t like it. I missed my son. So, at onec, I called his cell phone as he was nearly two hundred miles away at school only to hear his recoreded message. Although I wanted to talk with him, I liked hearing his voice.
I miss my son. I miss my cub scout.
Posted on Saturday, October 3rd, 2009 | No Comments »
