weirdest compliment

[metaphortunate]

Took the bus home with the Junebug on my lap as usual, talking about inside voices, about how the doors on the bus open and close, just like every day.

Right before our stop, another woman on the bus asked me: "Are you the babysitter, or...?"

"No," I said cheerfully, "I'm his mother."

"Really! Wow, well you're really good with him! So many people just seem so, you know..." she said, and then it was our stop so I just said "Thanks!" and we got off.

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Comments

[thistleingrey]

Totally.
Also good is the rejoinder, "Oh, this can't be your child, you look nothing alike!" Meh.

[likeadeuce]

"Well, we weren't going to tell him he was adopted yet, but since a complete stranger mentioned it on the bus. . ."

[thistleingrey]

*nods* And sometimes it is one's blood-related offspring and the vagaries of mixed ethnicities have escaped the commenter's grasp. :)

[pantryslut]

Yup.

[likeadeuce]

Oh yes, for sure. I was just thinking, "What is the response that person hopes to get out of you if they are CORRECT that you are not biologically related to the child?"