I've had a couple experiences in the past weeks that have devastated me. Both happened at church.
There was a lady who is less active sitting in front of us in sacrament meeting, and I've known her since Kali was in Kindergarten. She's a grandmother of a boy who was in Kal's class. I was talking to her about the primary presentation that was coming up the following week and chatting about this and that. She turned around and saw Spencer sitting with us and asked: "Is this your son?" I almost died of embarrassment and laughter at the same time, while trying not to cry my eyes out. I said, "No, Spencer is my husband." She replied that he looked like he was eighteen. Okay, he does have a baby face, and we've heard that before, but really??
The next episode happened on Saturday. We had some friends who were cleaning the church with their 5 kids and we offered to help them so we could share babysitting for the Elders Quorum party that night. We were able to finish pretty fast, with just the garbages to be taken out. I was sitting on one of the chairs in the foyer, and all the kids were playing. Then this old man came in looking for his boots, he talked to my friend's husband for a couple minutes, took a look at all the kids and came to me to ask if I was the grandmother of all these kids. Was that some kind of pick up line? I was pretty mad, and Kali was too, she wanted to go up to him and tell him off. Maybe he's retarded.
So, in light of these events, I realize I must have something to change.
What? That's total bunk. These folks just don't have a clue.
ReplyDeletethat totally sucks.
ReplyDeleteon a different note, I was always getting 'are her mom?' when I was out with my sister....I was a young teen and she was 5ish. I was mortified.
Jenn - old people have bad eyesight. Period.
ReplyDeleteAnd just because you are married to a guy in his teens, doesn't make you his mother.
But I'm glad you shared these stories. Very funny. These are the same people who come up to you and your baby girl wearing a pink frilly dress and say - "What a handsome son you have!"
Next time, have Kali hide that old man's boots. :)
This seriously shocks me. What the heck? Some people are so dumb. And I agree with Barb.
ReplyDeletethese were both old people that said these things to you, I wouldn't look too much into it. and we all know that 100% of the reason people said this was because Spencer looks super-dee-duper young, not because you look super-dee-duper old, which you don't.
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