Years ago, when my grandfather was still alive and they lived in a trailer park community just outside of Regina, there was a playground of old tractor tires at the end of the dirt road and I can still
smell it, the mix of hot melting rubber in the Saskatchewan heat and the faint
smell of urine from within them because little
boys would
pee in them, everyone knew that.
If you've got young
boys like me that wrinkle their noses at something green with a funny name, all you have to do is tell them that it makes their
pee smell funny and they can't get enough.