I was out on the playgound today sitting on a bench with a little boy as we watched his friends play. He looked at my leg and saw the nasty spider bite that I got last week- all big and swollen. He asked me what it was, and I let him know that I had been bitten by a spider.
He casually said, well that spider MUST have made you Spider Woman then. I laughed and said, well yes it did!
Suddenly things got very serious. The little boy leaned in and whispered, You are Spider Woman? Again, I said- yep, Im Spider Woman.
He said, if youre Spider Woman, you must fly then!
I told him that sometimes I DO fly!
Again, in a very serious whisper, he asked, You fly sometimes? I started to feel a little guilty and let him know I was just joking around.. He just giggled.
Then I caught him off guard again when I mentioned that lately I have been shooting spider webs out of my wrist and I wasnt quite sure why I had this ability. Ha!
Again with the whisper- He leaned in and asked, Can I see?!
I said sure! And began flicking my wrist at the tree in front of us, but suprise- nothing was coming out! I told him that I must be out of spider webs and he said, No! Thats not it! Youre holding your fingers wrong! So he grabbed my hand and moved my fingers to the right placement, and shouted with excitement- Now try!
I giggled and told him that I had been pulling his leg all along. That I was sorry to say that his teacher was no Spider Woman after all. We laughed and the conversation ended with him revealing to me that he was the one with super powers! And he ran off to get some "super hero juice" as he called it.
Its those sweet conversations that make my job worth going to every day!
That's funny...I always suspected you to be a superhero.
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