Today, April 4, is 404 Day and Jeep 4x4 Day, two days which I admit I have never celebrated. I got this information from my west coast brother who also informed me that it is "World Rat Day," a day which I will also not be celebrating. When I was a tiny tot, and we lived in an old area of town, my mother checked on me while I was playing in my sandbox (my father always built sandboxes for us wherever we lived) and discovered a (in her words) 'giant rat' sitting in the sand with me. That was the end of my unsupervised sandbox time. This may be why, a couple of years later, I enjoyed the sandbox in my kindergarten classroom so much. It was really a sand table, filled with lovely white sand. I loved that sandbox. There is a similar sand table at Science Central which, when you pile up the sand, takes on the colors of a topographical map. I would love to play with that but there are always so many little kids around, and I really can't push them out of the way. Well I could, I am bigger than them, but I probably shouldn't. It would tarnish their image of grandmas.
As for 404 Day, which is only celebrated in Atlanta, and 4x4 Day which celebrates the virtues of Jeeps and urges one to 'get out in the open air' and go for a ride, I won't be celebrating those days either. I will wait for 5-5 and celebrate by enjoying a good Mexican dinner.
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