So last night Leonard decided a good family outing would be to go to the Dodger game. It was last minute, but Dodger games are always a favorite of ours. Making it especially fun, was there was a fireworks show after the game. Little Leo always enjoys it and he just loves being out there in the stadium.
As everyone knows, my husband is a die-hard Dodger fan. So much so, that my not even 2-years old son associates anything baseball with the Dodgers and although his speech is limited does know how to say, "Go Dodgers!" So yesterday, when we started getting ready to leave for the stadium and we pulled out our jerseys he became out of his mind excited.
Again, as most of you know, my not even 2-years old son loves girls. He is a shameless flirt and knows how to ham it up. I personally think that's part of his attraction to Dodger stadium. I think he likes to people watch and there are so many girls there available for flirting. With that being said, as we arrived at our seats we were surprised and shocked to see some of Leonard's cousins (both teenage girls, ages 15 and 14) sitting 2 rows behind us.
As the game progressed Leo is playing with his cousins, and in between us and them, though, is another row of teenage girls so he is really having a great time. At one point, Leonard's cousins start take pictures of Little Leo. Leo loves having his picture taken, and loves to ham it up for the camera. So as this is going on, I am paying little attention until I hear one of the girls from 2 rows behind us say, "Are you taking pictures of him?" in such an accusatory tone that it begged my attention.
I turn to find the girl directly behind me (who are perfect and complete strangers) taking pictures of my kid on her cell phone! What the...!?!
Who does this? Who takes pictures of some strangers baby...WITHOUT THEIR PERMISSION? I was at a total and complete loss at what to do. The old Liz would have and desperately wanted to grab the phone from the girls hand, delete the pictures and give her a piece of my mind...but the new, mature and more controlled Liz just laughed it off and made a joke about seeing these pictures on the Internet. I didn't know what to do. I was totally shocked. I know it's probably not a big deal, but I don't know, I just don't like the idea that some strange girl in the LA area has pictures of my kid, whom she doesn't even know his name or us hers, on her cell phone. I had to laugh because one of Leonard's cousins friends basically told the girl everything the old Liz so desperately wanted to say. It gave me personal and private satisfaction that at least somebody was trying to shame her into place.
Seriously though, who does that?
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5 comments:
It seems like your charming son is charmer! It seems innocent enough. I imagine if you felt super eerie about the girl you would have ripped the phone out of her hand.
It does seem like a weird thing & your question with the exclamations are valid. I hope that some day I can go to a game with you see your fun kid in action! I feel like I'm missing out on so much. Thank goodness for blog updates!
It's a little weird, but I'm sure it was innocent. She probably just wanted to show her mom or girlfriends the super-cute kid who was hamming it up at the game.
For what it's worth, I think you handled the situation exactly right.
I think that you handled the situation right too! :)
Yeah, I bet it was innocent enough. Little Leo is just too cute :) At least someone ELSE got to tell her how weird she was being, while you could take the high road ;)
Once, we went out to dinner with some friends and their little girl was like 4 months at the time. The waitress was so enamored with her, that she completely ignored us (I was all but shouting that my son needed a drink--a tantrum was coming!), and took a picture of my friend's daughter to send to her daughter (who apparently has a daughter--what was her point? Look at how much cuter this girl is than yours? I don't know.) It was all very weird. And plus, she didn't say anything about Jonathan's cuteness, which probably had something to do with the fact that he was tantruming about having some water. Sigh.
What a weirdo.
"Um excuse me? Are you gonna let me take a picture of you for my collection? Weirdo :)"
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