Childhood thinking face

Funny how insignificant events from past haunt you all of a sudden out of nowhere and makes you laugh, cry and feel embarrassed. Some of them are so common to all, almost cliched that I believe most everyone had’em at times. This afternoon when the commercials interrupted my connection with that 70’s show I had one of these flashes from childhood when an elder asked a question. There is no point remembering who it was cause they were all the same, different name to a different face and always asking impossible questions. For God sake I was just a kid, couldn’t you ask simpler questions like ‘how many legs does a cow has?’ or better yet ‘What do you like most, candy or chocolat sundae?’

So there I was having fun, minding my own business, away from the elder zone as a wise kid is supposed to do to stay out of trouble. No matter how hard I tried to remain invisible to the elders, one of them would eventually have nothing better to do except quizzing me about social science and stupid history and not to mention math. Everyday I would pray to God to give all elders some sort of touring job which would keep’em away most of times and when they come home they should have strength only to eat, go to bed and hand me over my gift before doing so. I even wished that this should have been against the law and a flying squad would come to my rescue and ask the elders to stay away from me except when they come near me for the purpose of feeding or gifting. As they say when were the wishes of mankind fulfilled. So there I was bombarded with questions. Questions I wouldn’t know answers to. It was abut time to don my thinking face. Thinking face is a childhood phenomenon, we all had it one time or another so you would know what I am talking about. Its easy, squint your eyes a wee bit, make sure to manoeuvour your eyebrows so that you form exactly two and a half wrinkle between them. Don’t make an eye contact of more then 3 seconds at a time with your opponent. Look in every possible direction as if searching for answers. Glance sideways, back ways, top, down, glance on a slant of 45 degree if necessary. Well in all fairness it doesn’t do much except buying you a little time till next deadly question raises its ugly head. But it is against the childhood code of conduct to give up without going through the process. Not to forget that elders are emotional and they love you so if you are cute enough to make them laugh with your thinking face you may be exempted this time.