SPIDERBALL

During Little T's flag football game last Saturday, I sat in amazement as my 6 year old was told by his coach to stay 'right by' him so that he could put him in when he needed to.  Little T followed him up and down the sidelines like a little puppy....and the coach was pacing nervously...you know...flag football is such a 'serious' sport....and he'd occasionally back up and almost run over Little T.   But he kept up with him....stayed within a foot of him at all times....just waiting to be put back in the game, which he was, because he's an AWESOME lineman.  :-)



NOW......my question is......How come MOM can say...."Stay RIGHT beside me and don't MOVE!!"  in ANY store......and he does the EXACT opposite??? 
He recently was on an aisle with me.....looking for things FOR him actually, and he took off and ran around the end of the aisle and just waited there.....for me to come chase him....because it was FUNNY.   T:  "Ha ha!"....  Me:   "Do NOT do that again!!"  (Upset face for a while....it was a LONG aisle).
That's where the amazement came in......he was told ONE time by his coach......I think it's a 'priority' thing at this point.   Keeping Mom from going nuts.......Not a priority.  ;-)

Oh, and by the way.....our team did win, with only one distraction during the game.......other than a bunch of yelling adults.  (Never mind-that's a rant of it's own).    Right before half-time, the center had everyone listening to him before he hiked the ball to the quarterback......and it was considerably quiet, then you hear..... "HEY, THERE'S A SPIDER ON THE BALL!!!"  Momentarily, that crisis caught the attention of the players closest to the 'spider ball'.....but I'm assuming it jumped off before it could be heaved down field because they didn't pause long.

I felt kinda sorry for that spider.  It probably had never gotten to play football before that day.  I was kinda sorry someone noticed because it could've been involved in a touchdown...on it's VERY FIRST 'carry of the ball'!!  Of course....I say that with the hope that it was just a grass spider.....and not a tarantula or anything.  EEK!! ;-)

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