The Middle of Somewhere (2007)
The Middle of Somewhere
“—Kent Clark,Oh, you know the name of the book by now.
Back in the RV, I gave Gee an orange to peel, along with his lunchbox of cars and gladiators. If we were lucky, we might get through another day without breaking out Mad Mechanix. When he'd eaten half the orange, he made a slingshot out of a rubber band and used it to shoot seeds and bits of peel at his gladiators. Little “pow”s and “bam”s came from the dinette as we left Pittsburg, heading west.
Pop chuckled in a grandfatherly manner. “I wi...sh he'd sell me some of that energy.”
Actually, I've often wished I could sell Gee's energy. “Do you think it's possible to use kid-power somehow? Like with a treadmill?”
That earned another chuckle. “If power could be generated that way, I'd be making a fortune in hamsters. In the old days, treadmills were used to turn fireplace spits and simple machines, but we've moved way beyond that now. If you had ten little brothers like Gee, that could add up to something.”
“Uh-huh,”MoreLess
Back in the RV, I gave Gee an orange to peel, along with his lunchbox of cars and gladiators. If we were lucky, we might get through another day without breaking out Mad Mechanix. When he'd eaten half the orange, he made a slingshot out of a rubber band and used it to shoot seeds and bits of peel at his gladiators. Little “pow”s and “bam”s came from the dinette as we left Pittsburg, heading west.
Pop chuckled in a grandfatherly manner. “I wi...sh he'd sell me some of that energy.”
Actually, I've often wished I could sell Gee's energy. “Do you think it's possible to use kid-power somehow? Like with a treadmill?”
That earned another chuckle. “If power could be generated that way, I'd be making a fortune in hamsters. In the old days, treadmills were used to turn fireplace spits and simple machines, but we've moved way beyond that now. If you had ten little brothers like Gee, that could add up to something.”
“Uh-huh,”MoreLess
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