It's funny what you remember from school.
I remember walking around the playground, at the age of five, saying "who wants to play, the Six Million Dollar Man?" I got a group of about six other kids who wanted to join in.
The other kids chose which one was going to be Steve Austin (The Bionic/Six Million Dollar Man)...
They then all said to me, "you be Oscar Goldman", at which point they all tore off around the playground. I was left standing in the middle of the playground, pretending to answer the phone for the rest of lunchtime. I didn't see the other kids until the end of the lunch break.
Some kid asked "Whatcha doing?"
"I'm being Oscar Goldman" I said.
He said "oh" and walked off; as if it were normal to shuffle imagined paper, saying "yeah, yeah, hmm, yeah, ok Steve that's ok" to my wrist.
The funny thing was, I didn't leave the spot I was standing on, because I didn't want to miss a pretend phone call, that might come through. Is that a good sign?
True story!
I remember walking around the playground, at the age of five, saying "who wants to play, the Six Million Dollar Man?" I got a group of about six other kids who wanted to join in.
The other kids chose which one was going to be Steve Austin (The Bionic/Six Million Dollar Man)...
They then all said to me, "you be Oscar Goldman", at which point they all tore off around the playground. I was left standing in the middle of the playground, pretending to answer the phone for the rest of lunchtime. I didn't see the other kids until the end of the lunch break.
Some kid asked "Whatcha doing?"
"I'm being Oscar Goldman" I said.
He said "oh" and walked off; as if it were normal to shuffle imagined paper, saying "yeah, yeah, hmm, yeah, ok Steve that's ok" to my wrist.
The funny thing was, I didn't leave the spot I was standing on, because I didn't want to miss a pretend phone call, that might come through. Is that a good sign?
True story!
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