The boy and the noise...

I’ve been a bit under the weather…somehow I caught a bad cold…no C17, I took a test…also, no fever….but bad cough...so I have been in bed early. When you have big bouts of coughing in the middle of the night, you get tired the next day ( poor Rune has to deal with this too…what must he be thinking is going on?)

 Anyway…

Around 7-8 or so, every evening I had been hearing a muffled banging. The banging was consistent…It shook the house.  I kept thinking, What the hell!

I was too tired to get up and look. I started thinking it was kids playing basketball up above in the parking area. 

So last evening, when we finally had sun all day for a change and it got around 7…I heard the noise again. I was determined to figure out what it was.

I ran outside and looked up to the parking area….there was a boy 15/16 year old standing there. ( new neighbors son who is another neighbors ex wife son…and the ex is living here too and the new girlfriend…it is a tangled web) 

I said, in French…"What is the noise?”

What noise?

I asked…”Where is the ball?"

What ball?

Ok

He stood there, mooning around like 15 year old boys do and I went back to my house but stayed just outside to hear if the noise started again. I looked around the corner and could see the silhoutte of the boy against the sailboat…I waited…

Dag nab it!  Then the noise began again…

The boy, was leaping on a make shift platform, like a frog….again and again…( does that look safe?)

So I said…"This is what you are doing?"

Yes…

OK…cool.

No problem…keep going.

And that was the mystery.

My propretaire tells me he is doing it for basketball. 

I hope he is working his brain just as hard.