BritBrit

I was in the grocery store parking lot the other day and a group of teenage boys passed me - a few lanes over. One of them pointed and said, Hey! There's Britney Spears!

So for the record, I'm a teen idol.

Have a REALLY great day.

I was at Starbuck's this morning and they told me several times to have a REALLY GREAT DAY. Everyone else just got a have a good day out of 'em. I got a free drink, too. The Barista felt badly about wasting my [apparently limited] time.

I hope I don't burn in hell.

I figure it's fair trade for being polite when the survivors want to witness their life story to me. Which reminds me, it hasn't happened in a while. No doubt I'm due a doozy.

Where's yer mum?

The G and I were at a beach in Hong Kong one lovely Sunday afternoon. He was in the water attempting yet again to communicate with the local kids (after 6 years, I had yet to see one of these interactions go well but at least they weren't chasing him down the beach calling him a white ghost...yet?) and I was just far enough away to see them but couldn't really hear what they were saying.

What I could see was that the G kept lifting his hands up to his chest and making motions like he was indicating breasts and then pointing at me. I thought that was pretty odd, so when he got out of the water, I asked him what was going on. He harumphed a little, clearly pissed off about the interaction, and then:

G: They wanted to know where my Mom was.
BG: Didn't you just point at me?
G: Yeah, but they said you were a MAN!
BG: What, did they not notice that I was in a bikini?
G: I know! I even said you had TITS! But they wouldn't believe you were a woman!
BG: But couldn't they..?
G: I know! It's obvious you're a GIRL! What MOH-RONS!

I still think it's funny that these kids thought it was odder to see a bald woman in a bikini than a bald man in one.

Your Parents Suck

Sitting outside having an ice cream [read Gelati] at the local fancypants deli.

Kid 1 (sitting next to us): Look, the man over there has no hair on his head!
Kid 2: Man with no hair!
Kid 3: There are some little hairs!
Kid 1: I have no hair, you have no hair...
Kids sing in unison: No hair, he has no hair, we have no hair!

Parents did nothing.

I was laughing, it was really funny - I mean what kid acts like that? They continued by robbing the wishing fountain with their parents chasing them around (parents outnumbered kids 2:1 btw) saying Please put that back...

Not local, of course. Interestingly, not Yanks, either. They were English! So much for seen and not heard.