<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/fd02c6b9-5c37-4498-96e4-a24cbcaf4250/88686C97-5C4D-41D8-92AD-60DD4034B188/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2007/07/23/070723sh_shouts_rich" href="http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2007/07/23/070723sh_shouts_rich" style="font-size: 11px;">www.newyorker.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2007/07/23/070723sh_shouts_rich"><DIV id="articleheads"><H1 id="articlehed">Hey, Look</H1> <H4 id="articleauthor"> <SPAN class="c cs"> <SPAN>by </SPAN><A href="http://www.newyorker.com/search/query?query=authorName:%22Simon Rich%22">Simon Rich</A> </SPAN> <SPAN class="dd dds"> July 23, 2007 </SPAN> </H4> <DIV class="utils"> <DL class="size"> <DT>Text Size:</DT> <DD class="small"><A href="#">Small Text</A></DD> <DD class="medium"><A href="#">Medium Text</A></DD> <DD class="large"><A href="#">Large Text</A></DD> </DL> <DIV class="icons"> <A rel="nofollow" class="printico" href="?printable=true">Print</A> <A rel="nofollow" class="emailico" href="http://www.newyorker.com/contact/emailFriend?referringPage=http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2007/07/23/070723sh_shouts_rich&title=Shouts &#38; Murmurs: Hey, Look">E-Mail</A> <A rel="nofollow" class="rssico" href="http://www.newyorker.com/services/rss/summary?selectedFeeds=everything">Feeds</A> </DIV> </DIV> </DIV> <DIV id="articleRail"> <DIV class="articleRailLinks"> <DIV id="keywords"><DL><DT>Keywords</DT> <DD><A href="http://www.newyorker.com/search/query?keyword=Children">Children</A>;</DD> <DD><A href="http://www.newyorker.com/search/query?keyword=Teen-agers">Teen-agers</A>;</DD> <DD><A href="http://www.newyorker.com/search/query?keyword=Baseball">Baseball</A>;</DD> <DD><A href="http://www.newyorker.com/search/query?keyword=Erections">Erections</A>;</DD> <DD><A href="http://www.newyorker.com/search/query?keyword=Mothers">Mothers</A>;</DD> <DD><A href="http://www.newyorker.com/search/query?keyword=Concerts">Concerts</A>;</DD> <DD><A href="http://www.newyorker.com/search/query?keyword=Popularity">Popularity</A></DD> </DL> </DIV> </DIV> </DIV> <DIV id="articlebody"> <DIV id="articletext"> <P class="descender">W hat I imagined the people around me were saying when I was . . .</p> <P>Eleven:</p> <P>“Oh, man, I can’t believe that kid Simon missed that ground ball! How pathetic!”</p> <P>“Wait. He’s staring at his baseball glove with a confused expression on his face. Maybe there’s something wrong with his glove and <I>that’s</I> why he messed up.”</p> <P>“Yeah, that’s probably what happened.”</p> <P> </p> <P>                    ————</p> <P> </p> <P>Twelve: </p> <P>“Did that kid sitting behind us on the bus just get an erection?”</p> <P>“I don’t know. For a while, I thought that was the case, but now that he’s holding a book on his lap it’s impossible to tell.”</p> <P>“I guess we’ll never know what the situation was.”</P></DIV></DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/88686C97-5C4D-41D8-92AD-60DD4034B188/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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