Sticks on the Merry-Go-Round

Scene: The Playground. A is eating a stick on a kid-pushed merry-go-round. J is going parental.

J (walking over to m-g-r): "A, take that stick out of your mouth."

A looks at J as the m-g-r revolves.

J: "You know what I say about sticks in your mouth..."

A (takes stick out of mouth): "You can't come on [the m-g-r]. It's already started." (Translation: I can do whatever I want and I don't have to listen to you as long as this playground equipment is in motion.]

THWAMMM! (sound of 180 pound grown-up leaping onto metal m-g-r)

J (crouching beside A on the still-rotating m-g-r. Holds out hand). "Give me the stick."

A (surprised look on his face, kind of a cross between 'oops,' and 'dad's on the m-g-r; can he *do* that?'. Hands over the stick.

J: "Thank you." (Backward leaps off of m-g-r. Walks away.) (To himself) "Heh. Kid, you picked the wrong dad to try that trick on." (M is the dad who barfs just looking at the m-g-r.)