The Bat Cave

The Bat Cave. I was a huge Batman fan. I looked forward each week to the next episode. Stay tuned: "Same bat time, same bat channel." In fact I loved to recreate those daunting last minutes of each episode. Whether it was holding my breath as I tucked my head under a shirt full of Vick's vapor rub, or filling up my Mom's shower with as much steam as I could stand, my over active imagination was in high gear when it came to reinacting Batman episodes. But the most fun of all came when Ann Marie and I created our own Bat Cave in the storage area of her carport. We used cardboard boxes to create the high tech equipment needed to fight crime. Now usually in my own take charge manner I would have insisted on being Batman. However, I had read that the actor who played Robin shared a birthday with me. This was just too cool of a coincidence to let go by. I played Robin and Ann Marie was Batman. We ran around with our capes made out of towels making Gothum City a safe place once again. I do remember saying, though, "Hey, Batman don't you think we ought to....." quite a lot. It seems you can take the bossy girl out of the lead position, but you can't take the lead position out of the bossy girl. In fact, a few years prior my Mom had warned me that if I didn't stop being so bossy I would never have any friends. I knew better than to talk back, but as I left I remember thinking, "Well they'll do anything I say."