First of all, please forgive me for not visiting in the last few days but this week has flown by and my head has been a shed. Tonight I am off to see Twilight, tomorrow is my mum’s birthday so we’re cooking for her, and Sunday is Mr B’s birthday and we’re out all day and in the evening. Phew. So I will catch up next week. I promise.
And secondly, a word of advice.
If you eat out with a 3/4 year old, never, no never sit where they can watch people as they line up to get their food. For example, say you’re in Schmesco, in the cafeteria, where just a couple of metal bars and some waist high wooden panels seperate you, your table and your child from the queue.
Why?
Well because then you will get this.
MIss M: “Do men have handbags like ladies Mummy?”
Me: “Well some might I suppose babe, but usually no.”
Miss M: “Well dat man dare has.”
Me: “Shhhh. That’s a lady.”
Miss M: “What about dat man dare?”
Me: “Shhhh, that’s also a lady. She’s just got short hair hon.”
Miss M: “Well what about dat man dare, with the hat?”
Me: “That’s a lady too M. And try to speak a bit more quietly ok?”
Miss M: “Dat’s not a lady. He’s got a moustache.”
Me: “Eat your dinner.” (Thinking, noooooooooooooooooooo.)
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January 9th, 2009 at 12:19 pm
Oh yes. I can definitely relate to that. Also fun when they comment on people with obvious physical disabilities, people who look pregnant, (my daughter was talking loudly one day about that man having LOTS of babies in his belly) ughhh…
January 9th, 2009 at 12:30 pm
Love it!
My daughter once announced in a lift at IKEA. “What is that?” and pointed in the face of a … well he/she. I wasn’t sure either. Those lift doors couldn’t open fast enough.
January 9th, 2009 at 12:30 pm
Love it!
My daughter once announced in a lift at IKEA. “What is that?” and pointed in the face of a … well, he/she. I wasn’t sure either. Those lift doors couldn’t open fast enough.
January 9th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
LOL That reminds me of the time in a lift with youngest son who was about 3 at the time. A coloured gentleman entered the lift to be greeted by son saying “He’s black!” Ground open up and swallow me right now please.
January 9th, 2009 at 12:59 pm
Bless.
You could swing couldn’t you.
But for innocent bystanders that, my friend, is comedy gold.
January 9th, 2009 at 1:32 pm
aaahaha. this brought back memories of last summer when we were traveling to the in-laws. We stopped at a highway rest stop because Eliza had to go to the bathroom. We walked in to the ladies’s room where some very masculine women (short hair, flannel shirts, jeans, heavy watches) were washing their hands. Eliza stopped and said (very loudly): Oh no moma! We’re in the BOYS’ bathroom.
January 9th, 2009 at 1:57 pm
Oh yes, been there. We were behind a rather large woman in the supermarket when my boy was about 3, and he pointed and said “look at that lady’s big BUM”. When I tried to quickly change the subject, he just got more insistent: “But LOOK Mummy, her bum is REALLY REALLY HUGE!” etc etc etc until I went the colour of beetroot.
January 9th, 2009 at 2:46 pm
You just made me laugh out loud at work and that does not happen very often.
Thanks for sharing and thanks Single Parent Dad for pointing me this way.
January 9th, 2009 at 3:05 pm
Pickle is very good about washing her hands after using the toilet and also about shouting REALLY LOUDLY about those ladies in public toilets who don’t.
Picklesister once asked loudly (any other way?) if those men (sikhs) were Pirates?
Gotta love them.
January 9th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
I knew that hat didn’t suit me!
January 9th, 2009 at 4:18 pm
ROFL!!!
January 9th, 2009 at 4:25 pm
We used to have a rule that they didn’t say anything out loud about people; unfortunately that somehow translated to it being okay to talk about people behind their backs, so I don’t really recommend it but it saved my hide a few times.
January 10th, 2009 at 5:23 am
Great post. Thanks for the tip. I dread those moments…
January 10th, 2009 at 3:56 pm
Bwahahahahah! Love it!
I did the same thing to my mum when I was three. Hee hee.
January 10th, 2009 at 4:22 pm
One of my favourite stories from my brother’s bringing-up-kids album is when he was in the post office with his 3 year old daughter. In the same queue was a teenage girl with a couple of friends, dressed in an aggressively non-feminine way (short hair, piercings everywhere, combat jacket, army boots etc). My niece went up to her and said, loudly of course, “are. you. a. boy. or. are. you. a. girl?” The girl’s teenage bravado and attitude disappeared in an instant, in the face of this 3 year old interrogation, and she just shuffled and looked embarrassed. So my niece had to repeat the question, twice as loud and twice as slowly – as if to someone deaf and stupid.
My brother didn’t know whether to laugh or die.
January 10th, 2009 at 6:27 pm
there sure are a lot of manly women at your schmesco, jo. what’s up with that?
January 11th, 2009 at 12:15 pm
Funny! My son used to ask a friend of mine about her father. I was confused about this for ages because he had never met her father. Then I realised he was talking about her HUSBAND who looked and seemed much older but wasn’t. Oops. The darn things kids say. Go figure.
Great blog. I’ll be by again.
January 13th, 2009 at 8:39 pm
*snerk*
Awesome. Punkin already calls every single grown up a man, I can’t wait till she can’t actually tell the difference even though she knows the difference.
Kids are so honest… can’t put anything past them.
January 20th, 2009 at 4:54 pm
Very funny.
On walking to nursery school today, R said ‘Look Mummy. There are one… two men.’ I was very chuffed that she’d counted correctly and said ‘men’ instead of ‘man’, but then realised that the one on the left was most definitely not a man.
January 21st, 2009 at 12:47 pm
Hilary, the other day Miss M asked her Daddy if he was having a baby. He was so pleased.
Laura it’s awful isn’t it. We’ve had that on the bus before. So embarrassing.
Akela it can just be so so bad can’t it? I think mostly people are pretty forgiving of kids aren’t they.
Singleparentdad you’re right, comedy gold – from other people’s kids. ;D
Lee, heh heh. We’ve had a similar one, but it’s worse when the kids are older as that lady must really have looked like a man.
GoneBackSouth, it’s so hard to get them to turn the volume down when they’re saying stuff like that too.
Ms. Single Mama you are very welcome.
Thanks for stopping by. 
picklesmum, hee hee, yep, gotta love ‘em.
Potty Mummy, snort. ;D
Jen, yay for the giggles.
Expat mum, hmmm, I may have to think about that one.
Susanna, glad I could help, especially as you have 3 of the little angels to keep an eye on.
Kim, for a minute I though, ‘Kim thought her mum was a man? Weird.’ Then I realised I just needed a lot more sleep.
Iota I’d have laughed afterwards but died at the time. It’s worse when you can tell the person has heard and been upset or embarrassed by it isn’t it. One time a kid asked me that as I cycled home from work. I was skinny, in a short skirt that may have looked like shorts and had all my hair tucked in a helmet though. And I just giggled to myself as I cycled on.
Holly it seems to be a local style, old ladies with short hair done like a mans. They’re rebelling against the shampoo and set I suppose. When I’m a pensior I plan to have a green mohican.
Audrey, hee hee. So funny. Bad at the time, but really funny later.
Thalia’s child they definitely are. Sometimes I it can be a good thing, but mostly not.