The Scientist

"What did you like to make when you were little?"

Make? Like crafts? I loved making sock pupp-

"No- like, electricity, or books and all that."

Oh. Books. I was always writing books, typing on my typewriter, or drawing pictures.

"I like to make electricity. I'm going to be a scientist when I grow up."

You so will.

He wouldn't look at me because he was watching for the bus for summer school,
and didn't want to miss it.