Today, there was an art display at the city community center. They were displaying the works of art of the elementary school kids from the city of Date. When I saw what many of them had drawn, I couldn't help but laugh. No no, the drawings were actually very good. A lot better than me when I was in elementary school. Man, a lot better than me now. It wasn't the technique that made me chuckle. It was the subject of their drawing.

When I was in elementary school, I think I drew stuff like cars and airplanes and big buildings and dinosaurs (or at least things that resembled dinosaurs in my mind). What did the children of Date draw? I saw about 5 construction shovels. And I saw about 15 tractors. The others, were things like trees and flowers and stuff. This was a pretty small display too. 15 tractors! I was like, "Where am I? Iowa?" Nope, Date, baby.