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cut you a break — try it for 20. I bet you’d bail within 5 feet, right after realizing the pain you just experienced would be the first in a series of excruciating muscle spasms. Coincidentally, that’s when security will have arrived.
The point is, that is how a child feels when trying to endure a lengthy stay in an adult environment. So when the child in church started crying, I wasn’t surprised or angry. I simply sat and listened to his family’s goings-on. After all, I couldn’t hear any other goings-on, including the sermon, choir, monstrous pipe organ or my own thinking.
The child’s father relied primarily on the old parental standby: he repeatedly said, “Shh.” Not surprisingly, it did absolutely nothing. No, that’s not true — it added to the family’s decibel output, successfully masking the moans I made whenever I rose from the concrete pew.
Contrary to popular belief, “shh” is not a derivation of the word shush; it’s short for “shut up.” That’s why the sound is rarely made as a kindly
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