Some time ago, for reasons I’m not really sure of, I adopted the Army’s shout of “Hooah!”<\/p>\n
I don’t think I use it the same way they do, though. For me, it’s a victory shout to use after I succeed at something exceedingly unlikely. Like when I get a strike in Wii Bowling, for example.<\/p>\n
This morning, one of the dogs kicked over a large bowl of tiny beads. The little plastic things rolled and bounced across the throw rug the bowl had been sitting on – a multicolored rolling tide of plastic. My youngest and I were eating breakfast when it happened, and we both shouted in horror. <\/p>\n
Picking up these beads is a terrible task. The things are tiny and roll every which way. When they’re on a carpet or rug, you have to work each one individually out from between the rug fibers. <\/p>\n
I chased the dogs outdoors so they wouldn’t make any more of a mess, and then the little guy and I examined the problem. He knelt down and started picking them up. “I’ll help you, daddy.”<\/p>\n
That’s when inspiration struck. “No, wait,” I said. “I think I have a better way. Can you hold the bowl for me?”<\/p>\n
While he knelt down and held the bowl in place, I carefully gathered up the corners of the rug and tilted it. The beads rolled off the rug and into the bowl. I shook it a few times to get the last of them out and then dropped it back on the floor.<\/p>\n
The little guy looked up and laughed as the last of the beads fell into the bowl. “That’s a Hooah, isn’t it, daddy?”<\/p>\n
Yeah, it’s true. I didn’t really expect it to work either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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