About 2-3 days a week I stand on a corner sidewalk around 8:30 am to make sure all the clients from the housing facility down the hill make it up to the campus safe and sound. (I work for an Adult Day Training facility fyi.)
Normally it's pretty uneventful, but lately there is this 8 year old girl who has been going to work with her Grandmother and has been starting to pick the bus up at the group home her grandmother works in. Normally we'd give each other a small wave, but today she decided that she wanted to come up and talk to me.
I of course didn't mind. She was a fairly nice girl from what I've seen. So she walked up to the fence, gave me a quizzical look and asked, "Do you have short hair?" At the time I was wearing my hoodie, so I slipped it back and showed her my hair, saying yep. She tilted her head to the side and then said, "Are you a girl?" I let out a laugh and nodded, "Yes, I'm a girl." she then gave a "Huh.." look and said, "I thought girls only had long hair and boys only had short." And I'm like "My hair's not that short, it's down to my chin! see? Girl's can have short hair too."
Yes, I was trying to justify my haircut to an 8 year old girl. Go me. It's not a manly haircut! It's very girly.. ugh..
Well, the conversation didn't last much longer than that since she had to run and catch the bus, but I found her curiosity fairly amusing.
Yep, that was my day. Nothing exciting. Scampering off now.
1 comments:
yes I have had many experiences like this before having had short hair most of my life. Luckily as I've gotten older ppl dont make comments, but kids always do. I guess its just a kid thing.
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