A few weeks ago I made a trip to Costco to purchase my usual: toilet paper, paper towels, chicken, hummus, cascade, tide, bounce, chips, bread, peanut butter, t-shirts for Taylor, salsa, watermelon, blueberries, cereal...things a family of five just needs! I only had Sam with me and he was behaving quite well that day. I was impressed with his ability to sit in the cart for longer than two minutes and his lack of whining. As I was checking out, he wanted to help put things up on the conveyor belt. The lady behind us in line began commenting on how cute he was and what a nice helper he was to mommy: "Oh, he is too cute!! I just love his big brown eyes. You are such a good helper. And you are very quiet." I laughed and continued unloading my cart. She was persistent. "Is he always this helpful and sweet? It is so nice for once to see a child who isn't screaming and is well behaved in this store." At that moment something clicked inside of my child. He just couldn't let her give out such a lovely compliment without proving her otherwise. He looked straight at her, stuck his tongue out, and blew spit. Yep, my "sweet", "well-mannered", "helpful", and "quiet" child was quite proud to be sticking his tongue out and spitting. The picture above describes perfectly what he looked like during his outburst, except he's much older now than he was in that picture...which makes it so much better! But the story doesn't end here. Oh no, it gets better. I apologized for his rudeness and told Sam to please stop his behavior. The nice lady said, "Oh, I bet he doesn't even realize he's doing that. Don't worry about it. Kids will be kids." Unfortunately, Sam was not done being a "kid", looks directly at her with a straight face and says, "Your butt stinks!" At this point I am mortified. I mean, I know my children have a strange obsession with potty talking, but never in a million years did I expect one of them to go this far. At this point, the nice lady politely laughed and quit talking to me and my child. I wanted to run far, far away but I apologized, told the lady that Sam had big brothers, and quickly walked to my car. I spent the 20 minute ride home explaining to Sam that we don't tell strangers that their "butts stink". I sure hope that the lecture sunk in...we'll see.
2 comments:
hahaha - great story! I'm glad you figured all of this out! I'm finally done and all settled into the new job - did you want me to do a "header" for you still with the picture?
Hilarious! Maybe not for you, but totally funny to read.
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