where BEER was consumed (OK, also Viognier, Breezers and Orange Squash)
Melissa borrowed my hat (and posed)
And then we waited to board the ferry
Yes she is pregnant
On the boat was a young (white) man with a baby on his front, in a papoose. Fast asleep and very cute. Half way across, we get "Dad? That baby is coloured brown!" at the top of her voice. Nervous laughter all around. Coughs. Young man gets off, with neither a smile nor acknowledgement.
Jesus, the sort of embarrassing story your parents tell you that you said back in the 60s and 70s when you were on a bus. I suppose, being born in Devon, Melissa has no experience of anything else.
I think my daughter's daughter needs to get out more. Visit the Big City (Exeter). Get some experience.
Sometimes, I wish I lived back in the Smoke
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Oh dear, but it's still funny. (Well I laughed anyway oops)
Why nervous laughter? Or was the baby coloured green? ;) Colour _prejudice_ is wrong. Colour _acceptance_ is the way forward.
No. It was just that Melissa thought it interesting enough to point out whereas everybody else wouldnt have batted an eyelid
It's good that she's observant; nobody would bat an eye if she thought a beard was interesting enough to comment on, or if someone was very tall. There's no difference. Long may her innocence last.
PS. The deleted comment had a speeling mistale which annoyed me!
Meh. Pay it no mind, Hutters. It's not as if your daughter's daughter is going to grow up with a penchant for pillow-cases, wooden crosses and lighter fluid.
Aren't kids books and TV programs supposed to include kids of all colours these dayd?
Hee hee hee... nothing like kids saying what they see, eh? I hope the poor bloke wasn't too offended.
That's nothing to worry about. I come from the Frozen North, and I'd barely seen a black man until I came down to the Midlands. Just because she recognises it's different doesn't mean she thinks it's somehow wrong.
Why should you? That young man's apparently sullen lack of acknowledgement of an innocent child's remark is indicative of an increasingly common attitude.
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