I wanna be like?

Last night Ayden showed us this joke that his friend at school showed him.

I’m not gonna repeat it here but it had to do with eye shape and certain cultures.

Now I remember such jokes… but I grew up in Scarborough…. he has no excuses.

This morning he asked about it again… he didn’t get it that making fun of someone’s looks was a bad thing. Luckily Megan, the queen of etiquette was there. She simply said that the joke was in bad taste and would make people feel bad. She said “it’s not a nice person who makes fun of the way people look, you don’t wanna be that guy do you?”

Contritely, he looks down into his lap and says, “you’re right. I don’t wanna be that.

Then he suddenly looks up excitedly, points and says;

“I wanna be THAT kinda guy “

I think I got whiplash trying to figure out who was behind me and how this seemingly “noble” person snuck into my house without my ninja-sense tingling…

Then I realized he was talking about me. There is something powerful that happens when you’re kids want to be like you. It was an especially poignant moment considering I didn’t have a father to look up to.

I guess I’ll keep the illusion going and not mention all the inappropriate jokes we used to tell in Scarborough.

“what he doesn’t know, makes me look good”

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~ by dahnjr on November 25, 2011.