Sonic Sensei

Forgive us our fast food breakfasts. A first grade student is obsessed with "trespasses". He's been to church, which is such a confusing experience! I still have flashbacks to third grade Sunday School class where singing "Onward Christian Soldiers" was the weekly main event.

THE Piglet lived in a very grand house in the middle of a beech-tree, and the beech-tree was in the middle of the forest, and the Piglet lived in the middle of the house. Next to his house was a piece of broken board which had: "TRESPASSERS W" on it. When Christopher Robin asked the Piglet what it meant, he said it was his grandfather's name, and had been in the family for a long time. Christopher Robin said you couldn't be called Trespassers W, and Piglet said yes, you could, because his grandfather was, and it was short for Trespassers Will, which was short for Trespassers William. And his grandfather had had two names in case he lost one -- Trespassers after an uncle, and William after Trespassers.

If you are in first grade, "trespassing" involves Jesus, Piglet, and Goldilocks sampling the Bears' porridge. Although porridge sounds more appetizing than curds and whey or gruel, you have to wonder if the Three Bears stepped out to order breakfast burritos and tater tots at Sonic.



Sssshhhh! Don't tell my doctor I go to Sonic, or I will get the blood pressure lecture. Still, for $1.61, it's a nice occasional morning treat. It's not so much that I feel I'm sinning or trespassing, as that I'm spying. A small, older Asian man does his morning tai chi and exercises in the back parking lot at my Sonic Drive-In. Wax on. Wax off. "Karate Kid" playing at the Sunrise Drive-In Movie!