I realize that Lil J does not look like me. His father is Jamaican and I am Chinese. Despite my wishes for him to have distinct 'asian eyes', he has bright, wide eyes just like my husband and myself. I was just hoping that he would have a feature so that people would know right away that I was his mom. I AM his mother after all.
Today, like it has happened so many times before, a salesperson at a department store asked me, 'Is that your son?'. Not once, not twice, but three times. Come on! Do you really think I kidnapped the kid? Of course he is my son!!
Okay, in all fairness the salesperson today saw Lil J with my husband and mother-in-law first. I was busy browsing the rest of the store and had found them at the sales desk. I instantly engaged in a conversation with both my husband and mother-in-law. Then I stood there waiting for the salesperson to ring our purchase in. All of a sudden, she turned to me and said, 'Are you with them?'. I said no. I was tired, hungry and just plain annoyed at stupidity. Maybe I was being ignorant but I was all over people being ignorant to me. And then afterwards, she asked me the dumb question. Was Lil J my son? How do I say yes without being offended?
The funny thing is, when I'm out with Miss S, people always refer to her as my daughter. And trust me when I say this - she looks nothing like me. Shes half Jamaican, half Russian! So I gotta say.....
Are people fricken blind??!
Same thing happens to me with Mr. A. He's lighter than me and looks just like his dad with hardly any features of me. I get asked the same thing all of the time as well. I've just chosen to ignore the question now. I mean...if the kid is in the grocery cart calling me "Mama" that should really answer the question before it's even asked! Lol!
ReplyDeleteTotally agree with you Charma. I kind of just ignore the question and give the person a dirty look. My sister-in-law just tells the person that she's pretty sure she pushed her son out of her va-jay-jay lol (her son is half too)!
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