[philmont] Go Put Your Rubbers On

When I was in junior high school and already a Boy Scout, I was issued an English Reader, the bain of all young men. We didn't like reading anything less important than Hanbook For Boys.
   
  One day while looking in the index of that reader during a required classroom exercise, I noticed a scribbled note "look on page so 'n so". Eventually I turned to that page and followed the cryptic arrow to the circled text.
   
  Now I don't know how it is in all parts of the country, but where I'm from if someone wanted you to wear rubber footwear on a rainy day they would say "Johnny, go put your boots on, it's raining outside". In other parts of the country one would expect "Johnny, go put your galoshes on", but there in my English book that Miss Neason had issued to me was the admonishment "Johnny, put your rubbers on so you won't get wet".
   
  Soon, all the male members of the class knew of the admonishment and willingly shared it with the faint of heart members of the class. Boy were we bold back then!
   
  Somehow I became interested in other stories in our reader and read and read and read but I never found another sentence that more of the boys could recite from memory than that one.
   
  Somehow when I look at a pair of Crocs, I imediately think of Miss Neasons English class and the English Reader that admonished "Johnny, put your rubbers on so you won't get wet".
   
  I learned a new found appreciation of English Literature and the importance of keeping things from getting wet.
   
  I guess Crocs have a place in society after all.
   
  John LeBlanc

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Received on Wed May 21 04:46:26 2008