Run Home!

Well, we’ve been talking about how questions from kids often make us stop and think about why we say the things we do.

And then there are those funny childhood misunderstandings we still remember.

Joshua Minton left us a voicemail, and he said, I couldn’t have been older than four or five playing baseball with all the older neighborhood kids. They let me have a quote-unquote home run. So all the kids were yelling at me to go home, run home. My house happened to be across the street, so I thought they all wanted me to leave. I literally turned around and ran home instead of running the bases. I think I’ve seen that in a movie.

Well, you know, I had something somewhat similar happen to me when I was probably in junior high. And I was on the church basketball team and I had warmed the bench during the first half of the game. And they put me in in the second half and I had forgotten that they changed which goal you’re supposed to go to at halftime. And so I stole the ball, and I was so proud of myself. I was running and running, and I heard people on the sidelines saying, go, go, go. And so I kept going to the basket. I made a layup. But, of course, what they were saying was, no, no, no. Oh, no. Well, at least my team was. I guess the other team was saying, go, go, go. You scored in the wrong basket. How long did it take to live that one down, I guess? I wonder. I still haven’t. Nightmare fodder when you can’t sleep. And when I do sleep, I dream about it. Yeah, when you do sleep.