The Red Playground

ALL the kids around here know this playground by its unofficial name – the same name they all seem to come up with. Welcome to The Red Playground.

I find it interesting how kids describe people, places and things by color, smell, feel, likeness or some other outstanding feature. For example:

• My oldest daughter used to call my Dad “The Red Grandpa” because on their first meeting of significance, he happened to be wearing a red shirt.
• My little brothers used to call their bed “the brick” because it was made of a foam so rigid that it felt like one.
• There’s also “the smelly [magic] markers,” “the girl with the blue eyelashes” [a woman recognized for her blue eye shadow], and, well, lots of other examples that my poor tired brain cannot muster at 4 a.m.

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