Today at Parkside Elementary a 9 yr old student came up to me during class with a confident, bright, animated, toothy grin on his smallish face.  He said:

"You look like the guy from Dukes of Hazzard."

"Oh yea?" said I.

"Yea."

"Have you seen Dukes of Hazzard?" he queried.

"I've seen the movie, not the TV show...are you talking about the TV show?"

".....Yea, the TV show."

"What's your name?"

"Adam."

"All right Adam, let's work on the spelling assignment."

"I like you."

"All right, Adam....sweet."

At recess we continued our conversation because Adam did not want to play tag, he "wanted to talk to me instead."

"Do you like the Dukes of Hazzard?"

"Yea."

"Have you seen Batman?"

"I have seen Batman."

"Do you like Batman?"

"I like Batman a lot."

"I like Batman, too," he says.

"What was that stuff he drank?"

"I do not know."

"Do you like Ironman?"

"I like Ironman."

"Me, too."

"Have you been to Port Aransas?"

"A long time ago."

"At Port Aransas I went with my family into a store and there was a Dukes of Hazzard T-shirt in the store....it had the General Lee on it."

"That's awesome."

"I want that car," he says.

"That would be cool....if you really want it maybe one day you'll get it."

"Seven years until I can drive."

This remark makes me laugh.  At the end of the day Adam draws my attention to the backside of his binder where he proudly displays the orange General Lee.