I've been reading some posts about comments strangers make to mom's with kids. During one such reading a memory came back and had me laughing out loud. Literally.
When Monkey Wrench was almost 3 years old we were walking through Smith's produce section. I didn't have a lot to get so I was carrying a basket and he was walking along side me. He was running his hands along the table edges that had apples and bananas on them. Just going round and round, but staying close to mom. Such a well behaved kid. I was carefully choosing non bruised apples with no soft spots. (I am the produce man's worst nightmare.)
All of a sudden he clings to my leg and a mean looking lady tells me that he touched her butt! Yells it would be a more accurate description. It seems that she was choosing her bananas and was in the way of his running his hand along the edges so he just drug his hand across her derriere.
She was mortified. She had just been violated by a TWO-YEAR OLD!!!
So when she told me my very sympathetic reply was I'm sorry. She then informed me that I needed to keep him in a cart. My very unsympathetic reply was "If you're offended by a 2-year old touching your butt shop in the middle of the night."
If that were to happen to today I"d likely respond with something along the lines of "yeah. He grabs my boobs, so it's all good."
I miss the days of little ones, but am so grateful that my kids are now self sufficient enough that I can sleep at night and not have to wipe their behinds.
Share your stranger than life stories. I"d love to read them, too.
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3 comments:
I hate it when people stare at us at the store and ask us if ALL the kids are ours and then they look like they feel sorry for us when we say YES.
Ha ha. That lady is just rediculous. Thanks for the good laugh. Savanna and I haven't really had an experience like that yet but there are more children and more years to come for that I guess.
Love your story. I miss the days of things like that happening.
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