I just had a random memory of when I used to be a kid in daycare at the YWCA, and it was this: when the YWCA kids saw the bus of the other neighborhood daycare KinderCare drive by, some of the YWCA kids would shout, "KinderCare wears underwear!"
We never met any of these kids, nor had any reason to believe that they wore underwear except that everyone did by that age, yet we had this minor rivalry with them. The adults who worked at YWCA never mentioned KinderCare, and they certainly didn't give them the Snowball treatment, blaming KinderCare for everything that went wrong in our lives and trying to work us into a lather about it.
This rivalry was concocted by the YWCA kids on their own, purely on the basis that KinderCare kids went to a different daycare than we did. Humans like to do that, huh? I wonder if the KinderCare kids hated us.
It's funny how ingrained into our instincts this rival-type behavior feels. Really, I don't think society as we know it would last long without all of the controls and creature comforts.
Posted by: Nicholas | August 17, 2008 at 05:12 PM