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Stop Lights Are A Good Time To Think

// October 29th, 2009 // Baby

Today, as I was driving home from work, I pulled up to a red light and stopped behind the car ahead of me. There wasn’t anything special about the car and I can’t even remember what kind it was but I found myself staring at the car. As I was staring I noticed the driver was waving his hands. At first I thought he was yelling at the car in front of him so I zeroed in a little bit to figure out what the problem was. Then I saw the arms wave again and I realized that it’s not the drivers arms. The arms are coming from the backseat. It was a child’s arms.

I couldn’t see anything except for the child’s arms. I couldn’t tell you if it was a boy or a girl or even what color hair he or she had. As I watched the little arms I began wondering what conversation was going on in that car. Were the dad and child playing? Was the child throwing a fit in the car? I really had no idea but what I found myself doing is adjusting my own rear view and positioning it in such a way that I could see my own back seat and where the car seat will be when our baby arrives.

As the baby gets closer, I find myself placing him in the most mundane of daily activities and wondering things like, “What will we be doing at this stop light?”