A PENNY DROP
is when you hang
upside down on
a monkey bar
and swing
back and forth,
harder and harder,
until just the right
moment, when you
release your legs
and go flying through
the air, hopefully landing on your feet.
It’s all about timing.
If you let your
legs go too early,
you’ll land on
your face. If you
let your legs go
too late, you’ll land
flat on your back.
So you have to
time it perfectly
to get it right.
Shawn taught me
how to time it perfectly.
If you could do a Penny Drop or a
backflip (no cartwheels)
you were the king.
Shawn could do
both so he was the
king around here to
me and Tony and
all our friends.
But he made sure I was the prince.
In case you ain’t know.