The winter solstice is approaching. The cold weather is here. Time to overbundle the kid!
"My kid brother looked like a tick that was about to pop."
Ralphie as Adult: [narrating] Meanwhile, I struggled for exactly the right BB gun hint. It had to be firm, but subtle.
Ralphie: Flick says he saw some grizzly bears near Pulaski's candy store!
[everyone stares at Ralphie]
Ralphie as Adult: [narrating] They looked at me as if I had lobsters crawling out of my ears.
"Nothing strikes terror into the heart of a confection-starved grizzly like the prospect of facing a delusional, pre-pubescent, bespectacled kid with a Daisy Red Ryder BB gun." Alvin York
ReplyDeleteSearch as they might, no one ever saw a grizzly in Mason County, West Virginia, in the early 1950's, once word got out that I had my own Daisy Red Ryder BB gun. (I was a sort of hillbilly Saint Patrick, except for the venue and the vertebrate genus and the armament.) There's probably a statue somewhere, commemorating the phenomenon.