Henry, Chooch and I just walked into Eat n Park when a group of middle school-aged kids turned around and one of them, a cheerleader in a letterman jacket, exclaimed, “Hey look, it’s God!
” A titter of recognition spread through the group.
Surely she’s not insinuating that Henry is god-like, I thought, and then I realized that they were all looking at Chooch, who was desperately trying to blend into my back by that point.
And that is how we found out that back on All Saints Day*, when the priest was asking all the children what Saint they were dressed as (this is what Catholic schools do in lieu of Halloween, or so I’m learning) and my plainsclothed son said, “God,” that this did not happen just in front of his kindergarten classmates, but the WHOLE SCHOOL.
Chooch is legendary; on the Internet and off, apparently.