Bama! Bama!
Brief story:
Last night, Julie and I were getting ice cream at TCBY (umm, it’s healthy … ish) and were sitting outside. Summer is slowly dying, so we are trying to soak up the last bits of warmth that we can.
[Side note: Why are people so excited for fall to get here? I keep hearing that it's going to be nice to have "crisp" weather so we can all bundle up. Guess what? It's going to be cold from November until March. There will be plenty of time for bundling.]
So anyway, we were sitting outside at a table and there were a few other families around. One family nearby had a little boy who was probably about 20 months old. Curly blond hair, little khaki shorts and a polo. Cute kid. He was wandering around and babbling to himself like most 20-month-olds. Naturally, you couldn’t understand anything he said.
A few feet away from Julie and me was a USA Today stand with yesterday’s paper displayed in the window. The kid — again, babbling — walked by the newstand and stopped in his tracks. Then he walked up to the newstand and pointed at the front page of the paper, which was about eye-level for him.
“Bama! Bama!” he said.
On the front cover of the USA Today was a photo of Barack Obama. Again, he pointed his finger on Obama’s face.
“Bama! Bama!”
We were, of course, surprised. Pleasantly surprised, but even still. His mom came over to get him and we asked her if he was really saying “Obama.”
Her reply was “Oh yeah. He loves him.”
Someone get that kid a voter ID card.
Add your reply