I went to the Fourth of July parade in Bristol, Rhode Island, again this year. The parade this year did not have quite so many interesting marching bands as it did last year, and at times my interest flagged. One interesting feature this year was that during lulls in the parade some young people volunteered to lay down side by side in the street so that another young man could run and jump over them. He could jump over ten people successfully, but when he tried to jump over eleven, he had to veer off to the side to avoid landing on the eleventh person. (I think my counting was correct, but I’m not 100% sure.)
