Yep, it rained last night and as the oldest daughter and I were headed to the bus stop we were duly impressed by the six-inch earthworms that were crossing the road. The little creatures were making pretty good time, too, apparently if there’s enough water on the road they skate along pretty well.
What I don’t understand is why they feel the need to cross the road. Some are crossing from left to right the others from right to left. It’s worse than the whole question of why the chicken crossed the road. Maybe it was after the worms.
Yes, we are easily amused but we both thought it was pretty cool that some of the worms were side-by-side in racing configuration. Maybe these are the XTreme athletes of the earthworm community.
“Dude! Betcha can’t cross the Big Asphalt faster than me!”
“You’re on bud! Watch out for the Squashies!”
The street is littered with flat little bodies of athletes who dared and lost to a passing Goodyear radial. That’s Xtreme sports for you.
Anyway…it is now time for the very first Creativity Prompt of the Shoestrings blog! I post the following so that the various creative muses might be jump-started and anyone reading this blog might have that most coveted of all creative endeavors, inspiration.
Creativity Prompt #1
Create a new XTreme sport, the more far-fetched the better and write a story, song or poem about it. Or draw a picture of it.
