Out of the Mouths of Babes – Just a Girl
On my way back to the ferry from Mount Equinox in Vermont, I stopped at a Cumberland Farms gas station/convenience store in North Adams, Massachusetts to gas up. While I stood in the parking lot having a drink, I heard a young boy repeating a sing-songy chant of “pop a wheelie, pop a wheelie” as he walked across the parking lot. He was all of 12, maybe 13 years old.
I guess I don’t cut the most lady-like figure standing next to my bike, baseball cap on, staring down at my phone rested on the seat. When I looked up at the boy and his two friends walking across the lot he said…
“Oh, never mind. It’s just a girl.”
::shakes fist::
😆
::shakes fist::….at not being able to loft the front and shut them up? 😉
The Fuzz Horn Mono… =)
😆
At his age, it won’t be long before some girl wipes the floor with him in one way or another. The universe will even things out.
Sigh.
yup.
That’s funny.
Could have worse — at least it wasn’t, “It’s just some old lady…”.
Kids have an odd perspective on age.
And if you weren’t going to pop a wheelie at least you could have out of common decency done a burnout of the rear tire.
Ugh – the old lady thing is a killer! I still look for my mom when someone calls me “ma’am” or a parent says something like “watch out for the nice lady” to their toddler.
The one time you could have burnout-in-someone’s-face-and-transition-to-wheelie-outta-there and it would’ve been for good reason.
okay, next time for sure 😆
Sad that the young man can be such a little di#kwad at such a young age…but Steve had a good point, cooler to be called a girl than an old lady. 😀