CALL ME SNAKE

When I was in elementary school, we played four square and it was a pure, straightforward game. My kids play it at day camp and everything has changed. Now kids catch the ball and throw it and they throw it up in the air and clap their hands and they call out things like “post office,” “assistance,” and “chicken feet!” It’s complicated and confusing and the simple things I used to appreciate about the game are totally gone. So this is one more vote for the good old days, when men were men, and boys were boys, and four square was, well, four square…