My teenager needed his black dress pants dry cleaned before playing Mr. Banks in Mary Poppins this week. So after dropping him off at Drama Camp, then driving his brothers to morning swim practice, I raced back to our neighborhood dry cleaner, picked up the pants, and drove them back to Drama Camp.
There were kids in the hallway working on a dance routine, but he was not with them. So I quietly opened the heavy door to the auditorium, and he headed up the stairs from the stage.
“Thanks.”
“How’s it going?” I whispered.
“Fine.” By then we were in the small vestibule between auditorium and hallway, separated from his fellow thespians on both sides.
“You go first,” he said.
“What?”
“You go first,” he waved me toward the door, sheepishly grinning. “I don’t want anyone to know you’re my mom.”
So of course I stepped out of the vestibule, counted exactly five seconds after the door closed, and watched him come through the door at exactly five. Then, as he registered that I was still there, I stuck my tongue out at him and trounced out the door.
He laughed. Not sure about the young chimney sweeps behind him.
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