Saturday, January 03, 2009
IT'S FUNNY WHAT PEOPLE SEE
It was very cold on Hogmanay. Anna's pink snowsuit was upstairs and I was in a rush to go out to ASDA. Pudge's blue tartan snowsuit was hanging on the coat-stand in the hall. Given it is a cosy blue tartan coat for a 12 month old, I stuck Anna in it, put on her hat and gloves and went shopping. I was pushing her through Marks and Spencer food department when a woman said to me as I passed: What a smiley little boy you have there! I presume she was assuming Anna was a boy because I had coloured coded her in blue. But interestingly she was wearing a bright pink hat and gloves, thus also coloured-coded as a girl. Is it the percentage of her body covered by blue compared to pink that led to the boy assumption, or is it that coats are more obviously a specific sex than hats, or are people just plain weird?
Both my girls have happily worn this cosy blue suit in the winter without complaining to me once!
People are just plain weird!
ReplyDeleteI brought Ellen with me to an appointment with my physical therapist and we met a lady in the waiting room. Ellen was dressed in a purple dress and stockings and the lady commented on how adorable HE was and asked HIS name. I replied that her name was Ellen, but I don't think she noticed.
We have inherited a lot of boys clothing, so often she looks like a boy, but when we take her out, we try to make her look like a girl - mostly on her fathers request. :)