Kids can be annoying sometimes, don’t get me wrong. But there are other times when they are exuberantly happy and innocent they can’t help but make you smile.

One thing I’ve always got a kick out of is driving up behind a school bus and seeing the kids get all excited trying to get the driver behind them (me) to wave. They jump up and down, make faces, wave. I guess the reason this silly little activity gets me is that it is so timeless. Something that connects generations. The kids today have cell phones, atittudes, portable game devices, and were surfing the web before they were done breast feeding. There are infathomable gaps between generations sometimes, and a rapidly evolving society (in terms of culture and technology) doesn’t do anything to bridge those gaps.

But you put a kid on a bus fifty years ago, today, and fifty years from now, and put someone driving up behind them, and I guarantee you every time those kids will jump up and down waving suddenly focused on the purpose of getting this total stranger to wave back at them.

So of course, I waved madly, made faces at the kids, to which they exploded in silent laughter, and I drove on.