never talk to weirdos with cute outfits
"excuse me, do you think these camo pants go with this cute top"? "would you wear these two together"?
then this look of -stranger/danger- and "yeah, i would wear that, it looks cute". and the girl does a quick exit out of the fashion department.
okay...i was shopping this weekend at Target for my 7 year old niece's birthday gift. i found what i thought was the cutest outfit. green and khaki camouflage pants and this cute little vintage-ish T-shirt with kind of a army green Peter Pan/fairy thing going on.
if i was 7 i would love it. heck....i would love it now. i kinda think those camo pants are cute just can't bring myself to wearing them. not quite that brave.
i don't shop for 7 year old girls much. i don't spend a lot of time around 7 year old girls. now Jr. High girls i can tell you what they wear, what they want to wear, what they shouldn't wear.....
so i looked around the department for another mom, you know shopping for girls stuff, so i could ask her opinion. there was no one around. i decided the outfit was pretty cute, put it in my cart and was looking at a little purse to match and a girl, about 9 years old starts to head into the department. i look at her for a moment and ask her "said question".
as soon as that question was out of my mouth and as soon as she gave me that look of 'why are you talking to me...i'm answering you and getting the .....out of here' look, i realized that i must have looked and sounded like the "stranger/dangers" that they tell the kids about in school and talk about on shows like Oprah.
then i was quickly going to say something like, "oh my gosh, that must have sounded like i was trying to get you to come over here and .....blah, blah, blah.....and i bet the next thing you thought i was going to say to you was, i have some candy, and ..... but i'm really a nice person, i mean i teach Jr. High kids, i'm just trying to find a cute outfit for my niece....."
yeah... that would have just made it worse! yikes :(
BTW: the Birthday Girl, she liked the outfit.
