This morning when I was almost back home from the school bus stop, I saw one neighbor boy walking toward the bus stop. He missed the bus. Recently he missed the bus many times. Every time when I asked him if he needed a ride to school, he politely answered he would be fine.
His house is three doors down from our house. When I passed by his house, I saw his mom standing on the street.
The mom asked if her boy missed the bus. I said yes.
The mom told me a quick story. After she saw her boy got ready to leave the house this morning, she went back to her choirs. She is a busy mom with her four children including a new born. When the mom came back to the living room, she was astonished finding her son sleeping on the couch.
While the mom went back to her room to get ready in order to give him a ride, her boy already took off.
By the time she finished telling me the quick story, the boy was walking on the street around 100 meters (330 feet) away from us.
Now, it was my turn to be astonished.
The mom called her boy’s name at the top of her lungs. Her voice was really loud. It followed by her finger whistling, which was also clear high pitch tone, and very loud.
I thought it cool of her to be able to finger-whistle in such a clear high pitch tone.
While I lived in Japan, I hardly ever heard anybody finger-whistling in the daily life. Here in America on the other hand, I heard many people did so in the daily life, even in my daughter’s school. Even small kids can finger whistle.
Finger-whistling is one of my favorite abilities of Americans that I admire.
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