Walking home from work today, I saw a guy wearing a bright red Team Canada jersey dragging his kids to Thunderbird Stadium. He motioned towards the SUB and said “that’s where the students hang out.”
The way he said “hang out” was hilarious, as if it was its very own sport, with rules and techniques. When I’m hanging out, I like to do it reverse freestyle. And I can only take an hour or two before I have to go do something else - marathon hangouts are for the young. I mean, it’s something that most students are good at, but as in all things, it takes work to become great. You have to build up hanging-out stamina.
That there building his kids were obviously asking him about, the Student Union Building, that was built with taxpayer money to facilitate some Olympics-grade hanger-outers. In a few years, when his kids get young and surly, they too will begin to experiment with “hanging out.” And maybe, one day, if they get really good at it, they can go to university.
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And they can major in Hanging Out! Of course, there aren’t that many jobs with a degree in Hanging Out — at least, there aren’t now that Stephen Harpie filled those Senate vacancies.