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August 07, 2005

In the Hood

WildChild & I were coming home Friday night after meeting Mike for dinner, when he spied the little red caboose over on Gregg Street. It's been turned into a business (currently a hair salon I think), and it just fascinates him every time we go by it. He started talking about how it looked like the trolley on Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood....which led to a long soliloquy on all the places Mr. Rogers' trolley went.

It goes to this neighborhood and that neighborhood, he said, describing them all. And then he said "And it even goes to the bad neighborhood." "The bad neighborhood???" I asked.

"Yeah," he said. "It goes to the bad neighborhood sometimes and Mr. Rogers has to get his gun and shoot all the bad guys."

I almost lost it because of course the mental image of Mr. Rogers with a MAC-9, doing a drive-by on the trolley was the first thing that popped into my twisted mind. Struggling to keep my composure, I said "I think you're using your imagination. I don't think Mr. Rogers has a gun."

"I am?" he asked. "How come Mr. Rogers doesn't have a gun?"

I didn't want to go there, so I just said "Well there aren't any bad neighborhoods where Mr. Rogers lives so he doesn't need one."

"Oh," he said, sounding just a bit disappointed. He's currently in the SuperHero stage, you see, and so someone who doesn't fight bad guys isn't too interesting to him right now.

I steered the conversation back to all the things you could see while riding Mr. Rogers' trolley, which he did think was interesting, and so we went on home.

Now if I could just get the image of Mr. Rogers poppin' a cap while hanging out of the trolley out of my head......

Posted by Rita at August 7, 2005 03:15 AM

Comments

That truly would be a beautiful day in the neighborhood!

Posted by: Craig [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 7, 2005 05:25 AM

Wouldn't it though? This one really cracked me up. I still laugh everytime I think about it.

The child has quite the active imagination, that's for sure. Sometimes it's hard to tell if he's talking about something he's seen, or if he's just making it up.

Posted by: Rita [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 7, 2005 05:36 AM

Now you have me remembering Eddie Murhpy's skit as Mr ROgers with Mr T.

"The word for the day boys and girls.... is *pain*!"

Posted by: BloodSpite at August 7, 2005 08:11 AM