Possibilities of Summer...*

Today I emerged from the silence and tranquility of my office to discover what appeared to be thousands of small children cluttering the food court of the building. They were a relatively decorous horde. There was very little pushing, screaming, or ankle biting. But circling back on a subject addressed in a previous post on tourism, why would anyone bring small children on a tour of news facilities on a summer field trip?

Growing up in the middle of Kentucky, our choice of field trip options were unstupifyingly limited.

Childhood Field Trips I Remember:
1. Lincoln's Birthplace - The highlight is the cabin that Abraham Lincoln MAY have been born in protected within a mausoleum-type structure.
2. Fruit of the Loom factory - How treasured was the chance to see t-shirts being made before manufacturing facilities were moved to a sweatshop in Asia.
3. GM Corvette Assembly Plant - The socio-economic future of my classmates was made apparent on this trip. We were evenly divided between those who wished to work at the plant in the future and those who wished to own one of the cars.

I digress, my point is please, please, keep the children away from the office building. For selfish reasons (slight agoraphobia and pedophobia) and more wholesome motivations, I appeal to you to let the kids play outside. It's summer, you're only young once. Let the children frolic, run, and skin their knees. There is plenty of time for these kids to loiter in the food courts (as teens) or be sealed into climate controlled corporate tombs (as adults) later.

*Song by Matt Pond PA (Artwork by Nebo Peklo)