By Mona Moore
The Messenger
At first glance, passersby might think Jeremy McClain is waving at them. The 6-year-old stands at the front of South Park Mobile Homes’ front entrance with one of his hands in the air.
What Jeremy is actually doing is directing traffic.
“Five,” he shouts. “The speed limit is five miles per hour.”
Jeremy spent Monday with his pals, Joshua Freeman and Evan Wilson, doing what boys do when the school gods grant them an extra day off from Goshen Elementary.
A few tasks on Jeremy’s list involved cars and traffic. He plans to one day be a truck driver.
“My daddy drives trucks,” he said.
Seven-year-old Evan plans to drive for a living, too. He said he is going to drive a school bus, the route to and from South Park to be exact.
“But, I’m not working when I get older,” he said, clarifying that the bus route will not be work because he will like it.
Joshua, 7, said he plans to be a soccer player when he grows up. He and his friends played a little bit of soccer Monday morning.
All were glad to be out of school, even if they weren’t quite sure why they were.
Well, Evan knew why: “Because our teacher told us to.”
School has its good points. Jeremy and Joshua agreed that music and P.E. were fun. Evan liked that it was easy.
“All I have to do is color and I really like the lunches we have when we go to school,” he said.
The boys were more than happy to show off their pine tree. They said they like to tap it for honey. When asked if they eat the white sap that sometimes oozes out of it, they offered a unanimous “no.”
Tapping a pine tree for honey is no easy task.
“We use different tools,” said Joshua.
The boys had one disagreement Monday. They could not agree who had the best teacher. Each was in a different class.
“If we got in the same class, we’ll be acting up,” Jeremy said.
Joshua is a year ahead of his friends. He told his friends what they could expect next year.
“When you get to second grade, it’s going to be so hard,” he said. “You have to pay attention in second grade because when you get in high school, it’s gonna be really hard. You’ve got to do statements and details, details, details, and answers and a subject.”
“Wow, that’s gonna be hard,” said Evan.
The boys agreed that being an adult was even harder.
“We get to play outside and not grown-ups. They do all the work,” Evan said.
Jeremy said grown-ups couldn’t move as fast as kids and Joshua as sure they couldn’t do summersaults as well as he could.
They did come up with one good aspect of adulthood.
Jeremy said it was “being on the phone all day.”