Ah, little kids who haven't learned to be "PC" yet...

[Godhumor]

My wife, who is Japanese, and I went to our favorite Indian restaurant tonight to enjoy the dinner buffet. We walked into the restaurant, and, as my wife chatted with the owner, I heard a little boy say to his father "She looks Chinese!". My wife didn't notice and the parents were hushing the child, so I didn't think much of it. We get seated and go up to the buffet, and as we passed the table the boy said, "Look! There she is again!" My wife had no idea he was talking about her, so proceeded on without paying attention. I smiled at the table while the father was whispering to the boy. So we go sit down and enjoy our food.

About 15 minutes into the meal, the boy wanders over to our table, points at my wife from about three feet away, and calls back to his father, "I don't know what you mean, dad. Look at her eyes! She's not just like me!"

Clearly, the father had been trying to explain to the child about race only existing skin deep, and the boy felt the need to show where that was wrong, as it were. The father, beet red, came over to get the kid, apologized profusely, and dragged him back to the table where the mother was frantically packing to leave the restaurant. I was barely containing my laughter at that point, and my wife was just staring bug-eyed before finally turning to me and asking, "What the hell was that all about?"

Ah, kids and that missing social filter. I give credit to the parents for what they were trying to teach, but I'm still chuckling at the brazen attitude of the four or five year old boy and imagining the parent to son conversation during the car ride home.

[Skittles]

1. too funny

that made me laugh out loud :D

[SocratesInSpirit]

2. Hee hee

That reminds me of a time last summer when I was at a restaurant with my husband's family... we were seated by a window, and two Muslim women in full regalia walked by outside (everything was covered but their eyes). And they were both dressed in black. So my husband's ten-year-old brother declared in a loud voice, "Look - ninjas!"

Luckily, the women could not hear through the glass. :rofl:

[Godhumor]

3. OK, that's great

It is amazing where kids' minds will go.

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. My youngest did that once. "Hey, that kid looks kinda chinese kinda japanese!" The mom

said, "well, he's half right."

I could have just fallen through the floor. LOL

[mainegreen]

5. Kids stink at pc. That's why they're so great sometimes.

God knows why, but mine thinks that anyone who's jumping up and down, yelling is 'being african'. No clue where he picked that up from. Sometimes he demands that we watch him 'being african' and he jumps up and down on the bed, waving his arms. If he then falls down, that's 'tripping out'. Once he combined the two to say he was 'being african, tripping out'. I nearly peed myself laughing.