Rebecca my nine year old daughter is selling Girl Scout cookies and George my ten year old wanted to walk the neighborhood with her. Now if you look at them you would not know they were brother and sister unless you look beyond the skin color. They have the same face shapes and eyes but George is African American/Caucasian and Rebecca is Caucasian. When he would walk up to the door he would tell them that his sister was selling Girl Scout cookies and would they like to buy some. The look at some of their faces is like are you crazy.
When we were done for the day George mentioned it like he thought it was funny that people always get that look on their faces. He stood at their doors with a big smile on his face and shook his head every time he got one of those looks. George is very proud of his sister and his brother and is not afraid to tell people about it.
The other day I actually got one of those looks and it is like really people. It annoys me but he just laughs and shakes his head. We all went to the grocery store (mistake one) and George was incredibly grumpy and I still don’t know why except he was mad he was grocery shopping. He started being grumpier so I decided to go sit in the car with him while my hubby and the other two kids finished up the shopping. So here I am a Caucasian woman walking a child of different color out of the store; who by the way is almost as tall as I am; and the child has the terrible grumpy I cannot believe you are taking me out of this store look on his face. If he had been crying you would have thought he was being kidnapped by me. I was sitting in the car waiting for the police to come and stop me from stealing this kid.
As we were walking out I got looks from people like hey why are you taking that child out of the store. I was already annoyed because he chose this behavior and then I was getting the looks. I think it made him laugh a little that he saw the looks too. Maybe that was his master plan after all.
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