Stefan was taking part in a football camp all of last week (the word 'camp' is loosely used here: Basically, it was a week of playing football from 09:30-15:30 Mon to Fri, incl. fruit and weather dependant breaks one of them being lunch at a nearby hotel) and when I picked him up yesterday, he told me that one of the other players had asked where he lived so they could meet up here and play together sometime.
I'm all up for Stefan growing his social circle, so I ask the, to me, obvious first question: What's his name?
Stefan: I don't know.
Okay. I put on my detective cap, which is getting more and more worn out due to Stefan's, in my view, often total ignorance as to where he last put things, which YouTube video or song he's referring to etc. and move on with my questioning:
Me: What does he look like?
Stefan: He has dark hair.
Okay. I have a couple of boys in mind and move onto more in-depth questions:
Me: Does he have curly hair?
Stefan: No, it's sort of like this: (he makes circle movements on top of his own hair. I conclude that yes, it's curly, but Stefan doesn't know the word 'curly')
Me: Does he have dark skin?
Stefan: No.
Stefan then remembers some additional information and tells me that the boy won a trophy and wasn't on his team. This boils the number of potential candidates down to around six.
I ignore his reply to the question about skin colour and ask him if it was Sharon (who's of Indian descent). But no.
Then I ask him if it was the boy he said 'Adé' to (I guess it's a Swiss-German version of 'Adieu') when we were going home and result!
Stefan's new friend, whose name he doesn't know, is a black boy with a short afro who won a trophy for being an allround nice player.
Name: No idea. He doesn't go to the same school as Stefan. We don't know where he lives. BUT, I'm positive we'll bump into him again as this part of Zürich is quite small and the children tend to go to the same playgrounds. He might even be on the same football team when the new season begins next week.
And, now at least I also know what he looks like.
This brings me back to the title of this post:
Is this a typical boys thing?
