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Step on a Crack, Updated

Posted by Miriam Axel-Lute

 If "step on a crack, break your mother's back" was feeling a little too simple for you, a little too black and white in a world of bureaucratic grays, or just not quite challenging enough as a pasttime for your super-intelligent kid, five-year-old Ada Norton has a new, expanded version for you, in 14 steps. (It's even translated into Spanish.)

Number 8 is "If you step on the lines 71 times, then you can't step on squares anymore, and you have to step on the lines." and number 9 is "If you go to sleep when you have 6 lines, you will have 0 when you wake up." But it's the whole package in all its randomness that really shines.

I love five year olds.

Photo by Nate KS.

 


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Comments

 

Brett Singer said:

Wow. I feel really dumb.

September 10, 2008 1:07 PM
 

Brett Singer said:

Is this kid available to do my taxes?

September 10, 2008 1:08 PM

About Miriam Axel-Lute

Miriam Axel-Lute is a freelance writer, editor, poet, and urban planning junkie. She lives, works, and gardens in Albany, NY, with her two partners and daughter.

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