When we last left Harry, he was walking across a deserted soccer field wondering where were all the kids who should be outside playing on such a perfect Sunday afternoon.
ARE ANGRY BIRDS THE CULPRIT?
No, not angry birds like in the Alfred Hitchcock movie thriller “The Birds”.
There are families with the last name Bird, but none live in this community. So can’t be those kind of angry Birds.
These are no birds on the rampage because there are no seeds to eat. This is the Sunbelt. Plenty of food.
The birds are not angry because there’s no one to play with. They should be delighted that there are no little people frolicking on the vast green soccer field ready to flick them with a pebble from their slingshot.
As you might imagine, I, Fairy, have the answer.
These Angry Birds I am writing about are what’s keeping an otherwise impossible-to-deal-with 4-year-old out of his parents hair.
His parents are resisting the urge to dig in to the Angry Birds phenomenon. Actually, they probably have already “signed on” at work without telling each other.
Angry Birds, I recently learned, is the latest computerized game to which “kids” of all ages are becoming addicted. The game challenges players to catapult birds at structures containing egg-stealing pigs.
The 4-year-old’s siblings are already deep into it.
Teenagers are too.
No age limit, no education required, just some fun, if you’re up to it. And of course, some technological acumen helps. No problem for the 4-year-old.
These angry birds are keeping little kids quiet and allowing computer workers stuck in cubicles to stay entertained and even letting Grandma and Grandpa supplement their Crossword and Sudoku puzzles for a go at it and actually have fun in their recliners.
We’ve seen trendy crazes like this before; there was the Hula Hoop, the Rubik’s Cube, the first Pac-Man game, etc.
I don’t think this is some underground subversive plot.
Wait a minute, maybe I do.
Could the developer, who is trying to sell more homes in the area, have forbidden the little monsters from going out and playing on the soccer and baseball fields, wanting the fields to remain in pristine condition to entice the potential home buyers that are coming along? Homebuyers, like the little monsters’ parents before them, who just might want to buy because there are pristine soccer and baseball fields for their little ones to play on????
Who is to blame? Angry Birds, a plot by the developers, neighbors moving in and out so no one knows each other? No one to organize the kids? A feeling that it is not safe to let the kids go outside and play?
So many possibilities. Harry’s revealing statistics say all of these could be the answer.
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