1362 Camo Kids

I heard an interesting ad on the radio recently. It was for a gun and knife show. What was interesting was how at the end the announcer in the commercial shouted out, “Kid’s under 12 free!”
How lucky for the single dad looking for something to do on his child custody Saturday. A nice low budget outing. “Hey kids, let’s go to the gun and knife show!”
I suppose with the populist revolution brewing and all, it’s a good idea. And it’s long been a tradition in our country for kids, especially boys, to emulate fighting and war and suchlike with their toys. I say boys because I don’t remember seeing a Desert Camo Barbie.
But that has problems. The other day I saw two young fellows on bicycles racing around a fairly congested street. They were ignoring the bike lanes and darting across traffic, obviously engaged in a heedless game of chase, dodging obstacles and so on.
They were wearing bike helmets. Sort of. Now I know it’s important to have a helmet a kid will actually wear. So plastering a bright orange daisy decal on it is probably not the answer.
Still, I think it’s a bad idea to have a bicycle helmet done up in camo. I mean, the basic point on a bicycle is to be seen. The problem is exacerbated because most of the boys also wear camo clothes. And that, while making for a good game of guerilla warfare, increases the risk when they start biking around blind corners in neighborhoods.
Maybe skip the camo clothes and the problem disappears. Along with their camouflaged head. It would definitely get a motorist’s attention to apparently be seeing a headless bicyclist.
On his new Ichabod Crane BMX, perhaps?
America, ya gotta love it.