"Molestor"
Friday, October 12, 2007
My sis and her brood is leaving tomorrow to go back up North. I'm bummed because the soonest I'll probably get to see them again is Christmas....but I'm sort of doubtful that will happen because we really don't have the money to go up there. I'm guessing that the the next time we will make it up there is next Spring.
We took all the kids to get their portraits done today (Thanks for the coupon, twolinesonastick!) and I think they turned out great. I can't wait to get them back. My sis also recently bought a 2 year membership for next to nothing from another momma on a baby goods trading site, so that helped cut the cost too. When Scout was 1 week old, we had her portraits done at a private professional portrait studio because the photographer is a friend of ours. Just an example of how outrageous his prices were : 8 wallets were $18.00 and an 8 x 10 was $25.00. (I use past tense because he and his family are missionaries overseas now) That was not including the sitting fee. We never could've afforded that, but DH had done some website work for him, so we got all of our pics for free. Compared to those prices, JC Penney is so inexpensive! I ended up with 6 different poses and four 3.5 x 5's, four 5 x 7's, 21 wallets, 21 billfolds, and one 10 x 13, all for $45. It just dawned on me that I forgot to order one of the poses that I really liked, so I'm going to have to pay full price for a sheet later when I can come up with the money and order it online....but even then, it will be WAY cheaper than the small local professional photographers. And from what I saw today, the quality is super close to being as good.
On our way out of the portrait studio, a jolly elderly man (maybe 75 years old or so) came up to us. We had the oddest exchange EVER. This is entirely true. None of it is fabricated or even exaggerated.
Old Man (to Scout): Aren't you just so cute? Yes you are, yes you are! Is that your big sissy? (pointing to my 6-year-old niece)
Me (smiling cheerfully): Nope, that's her older cousin.
Old Man: Awe, yeah, but I bet she still molests her like an older sister would.
Me (nervous and confused): heh heh heh
Old Man (chuckling, to my 6-year-old niece): Yep, that's okay, I like to molest little babies too.
Ummmm..... WHAT?
My theory is that he is a little senile and got the words "harrass" and "molest" mixed up. Because if you replace the word molest with harrass, what he said makes sense and fits with the jesting/teasing tone he was using. Poor guy. At least, that's what I HOPE happened. Gees. (To be fair, I just looked up the word molest, and it actually means to disturb or annoy in the purest sense of the word. But dang, man! You have to be living under a rock to not know that nobody uses it in that context anymore)
My sister and I completely busted up after he walked away. My bro-in-law was in the bathroom when it happened and DH was at work, so they did not get to witness the weirdness of an old man announcing loudly "I like to molest little babies" in the middle of a department store. Too bad. DH would've loved it and I wonder if he really believes that it happened the way I said it did.
We took all the kids to get their portraits done today (Thanks for the coupon, twolinesonastick!) and I think they turned out great. I can't wait to get them back. My sis also recently bought a 2 year membership for next to nothing from another momma on a baby goods trading site, so that helped cut the cost too. When Scout was 1 week old, we had her portraits done at a private professional portrait studio because the photographer is a friend of ours. Just an example of how outrageous his prices were : 8 wallets were $18.00 and an 8 x 10 was $25.00. (I use past tense because he and his family are missionaries overseas now) That was not including the sitting fee. We never could've afforded that, but DH had done some website work for him, so we got all of our pics for free. Compared to those prices, JC Penney is so inexpensive! I ended up with 6 different poses and four 3.5 x 5's, four 5 x 7's, 21 wallets, 21 billfolds, and one 10 x 13, all for $45. It just dawned on me that I forgot to order one of the poses that I really liked, so I'm going to have to pay full price for a sheet later when I can come up with the money and order it online....but even then, it will be WAY cheaper than the small local professional photographers. And from what I saw today, the quality is super close to being as good.
On our way out of the portrait studio, a jolly elderly man (maybe 75 years old or so) came up to us. We had the oddest exchange EVER. This is entirely true. None of it is fabricated or even exaggerated.
Old Man (to Scout): Aren't you just so cute? Yes you are, yes you are! Is that your big sissy? (pointing to my 6-year-old niece)
Me (smiling cheerfully): Nope, that's her older cousin.
Old Man: Awe, yeah, but I bet she still molests her like an older sister would.
Me (nervous and confused): heh heh heh
Old Man (chuckling, to my 6-year-old niece): Yep, that's okay, I like to molest little babies too.
Ummmm..... WHAT?
My theory is that he is a little senile and got the words "harrass" and "molest" mixed up. Because if you replace the word molest with harrass, what he said makes sense and fits with the jesting/teasing tone he was using. Poor guy. At least, that's what I HOPE happened. Gees. (To be fair, I just looked up the word molest, and it actually means to disturb or annoy in the purest sense of the word. But dang, man! You have to be living under a rock to not know that nobody uses it in that context anymore)
My sister and I completely busted up after he walked away. My bro-in-law was in the bathroom when it happened and DH was at work, so they did not get to witness the weirdness of an old man announcing loudly "I like to molest little babies" in the middle of a department store. Too bad. DH would've loved it and I wonder if he really believes that it happened the way I said it did.
posted by Unkempt Mommy at 4:28 PM
4 Comments:
Yikes! Maybe he was like 95 and just looked younger and so his langauge is way outdated. Maybe. Or like you said, he has had a stroke and just got the words mixed up....or he is a perv.
Wow... my guess is not a perv but just mixed up old man- at least that is what I'm hoping! Ahhhhhhhhh
First, how awesome that you got pix made of the cousins! We want to do that with my brother's kids but it never actually happens.
Second, could the elderly gentelman have been of Latin American or Italian descent? "Molestar" means "to bother" and he could have lost it in translation, an honest mistake. Just throwing that out there. I would have fallen on the floor laughing after he walked away, though, too!!
Holy wow, snort. I hope he just needs a dictionary!
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