As I caught my breath, she giggled those words to me after my race on our 4th grade playground. I didn’t know what a ninny was at the time, but I knew it didn’t sound good, especially coming from the girl I had my first crush on. Stacy had curly blonde hair, a pretty smile, and unbridled honesty - obviously.
As I caught my breath, she giggled those words to me after my race on our 4th grade playground.
I didn’t know what a ninny was at the time, but I knew it didn’t sound good, especially coming from the girl I had my first
crush on. Stacy had curly blonde hair, a pretty smile, and unbridled honesty - obviously.
In my defense, the ninnyness never slowed me down. The 9 year old me always managed a respectable showing. But in the rough and tumble world of 4th grade athletics, style mattered - and I didn’t have it.
Decades later, I still don’t know what I look like when I run. When would I have had the chance to watch that? But last weekend, as I sat on my back porch nursing an American single malt - it hit me.
Glass raised to lips, I see my kid throw a tennis ball, chase our dog across the yard, and run... like a ninny.
It’s in the genes.
But I’m still not entirely certain what “ninny” means.
[checking dictionary] nin·ny /ˈninē/ noun INFORMAL 1. a foolish
person.
Yup… I’m weirdly glad that it means what I expected. There'd be a mild panic if “ninny” actually meant “badass” and I had completely missed her overture.
This one is for Stacy. I don’t know where she landed in life. No doubt in the arms of a man with the speed of a cheetah, grace of a gazelle, and thick skin of a damn rhino.
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