Lately, I've been reading a lot of jump rope and clapping rhymes

[conuly]

Now, everything I read and remember about clapping games says that, usually, they're a girl thing. Boys either don't know them, or refuse to acknowledge they know them, or only admit they know them when coerced, or (at the very least) refuse to initiate these games.

So I was interested on the boat to see four kids - two girls, two boys - playing a game. The hands were the same as when I used to play "Oh little playmate" as a kid, but they weren't saying anything. Looked like the girls and one of the boys knew it, and they were trying to teach it to the fourth, but he was clumsy and (as the girls said, while refusing to themselves stop and show this kid properly) the other boy was teaching it "too fast", making it hard to see what to do.

This is a random commentary from my life. Gosh I'm tired.