Sisi kununuliwa kwanza wetu (na tu) "luxury" car back when hurricane Floyd nailed the east coast of the U.S. We got a LOT of rain here in New Jersey and siku kadhaa kupita before life returned to normal. Just before Floyd struck, sisi alifanya kutoa kwa ajili ya Volvo kutumika 850 GL na baada Floyd akampiga, alimfukuza nyumbani.

It was our first car with a CD player. Like most new car owners, tulikwenda kidogo CD mambo, revived our dormant CD collection and went on long drives just to listen to CD’s in the car. Like all fads, this passed for us and we ended listening to the same CD over and over again. Katika kesi yetu, ilikuwa ni Yesu Kristo Superstar.

Moja ya (wengi) vipande kipaji katika kwamba opera mwamba ni kuimba na aina ya uanzishwaji wa dini, wakiongozwa na Kayafa, the "High Priest". They sing their way into deciding how to handle the "Jesus problem" and Caiaphas directs them to the conclusion that "Jesus must die". The refrain on the song is "Just must die, lazima kufa, lazima kufa, this Jesus must die". You hear that refrain a lot in that piece.

Wakati, my son was about three years old. You can probably see where this is going.

I came home from work one day and my son is in the living room playing with toys and humming to himself. I’m taking off my jacket, kutafuta njia ya barua na kawaida yangu kila kutembea-katika-mlango-stuff na mimi ghafla kutambua kwamba yeye tu kusema, si kweli kuimba: "Jesus must die, lazima kufa, must die." I was mortified. I could just see him doing that while on one of his baby play dates at a friend’s house — pengine mwisho kucheza na tarehe na rafiki kwamba mtoto.

Sisi vunjwa kwamba CD kutoka Volvo baadaye 🙂

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