Har-The-Tag

I was on my merry way home from school today when the sound of children's chanting caught my ear.

I turned to my right and there were three children standing in a compact circle, chanting some sort of mantra that went to the tune of "har....the..tag!", accompanied by swift hand gestures and animated faces.

I paused to think, "what could they possibly be saying?". But I soon drowned their incoherent chants out as a blurry of noise in the background.

But no sooner had I done that did I realize that they were actually saying "Heart Attack".

Oh my goodness, I thought to myself. A consummate example of the pitfall of our nation's youth - they can't even pronounce the words in their little games properly.

I spent the rest of the journey home rather disturbed that I didn't have the slightest inkling of what the children were saying. When they had spent a good five minutes repeating the same phrase ("Heart Attack" i.e. "Har....the..tag!") over and over again.