She Said

Photo Description: Child's wheelchair, metal frame is bright yellow.

I was caught in the same line-up.

The wait seemed interminable.

The clerk, slow and bored.

Two spaces ahead of me were a young mother with her boy.

He sat in a jolly, really jolly, bright yellow wheelchair.

He was bored.

I was bored.

We were all bored.

"What's wrong, Mommy," he asked.

"I'm just tired," she said.

After a pause he said, "I wish you had a chair to sit in like me."

She smiled.

The woman between mom and child and me, said, "He doesn't understand what he's saying."

Mother.

Turned.

"Yes.

He.

Does."

She said.