#340
Inspired by the whole “My iPhone 5 Ran Out Of Battery <insert angsty face” First World Problem series.
Coming home from the recent Diwali dress-up day (the rest of the school is encouraged to wear bright clothing instead of uniform, while their Diwali-celebrating friends dress in their festival finest)…
Me: How was school today, darling?
(Rockstar gives an unenthusiastic thumbs up)
Me: <mild surprise> I thought you’d have fun, your friends didn’t like your Creeper shirt?
Rockstar: Oh, they really liked it. But then e-veryone especially the usual gang (which is what he calls his regular bunch of pals) kept reading it. So I couldn’t play for like, 10 minutes.
Me: Are you serious? That’s what bothers you?!
(Rockstar nods with solemn expression)
Me: So you prefer not to wear something cool or what?!
Rockstar: Well…
Me: Oh please. Of all the things we choose to be bothered by today.
Rockstar: But we were playing Hide n Seek! Everyone kept finding me to read my t-shirt and then after that they’d tell others where I was hiding! As in, in case they wanted to read my t-shirt too!
Me: <trying not to laugh> O…..kay I didn’t see that coming. But you loved that shirt. And your friends did too.
Rockstar: <seriously> Mum. In future, do not let me wear this t-shirt on dress-up days when we’re going to be playing Hide n Seek.
Me: <still trying not to laugh, he’s really serious> How am I supposed to know when you’re playing Hide n Seek?! And anyway I thought you guys were playing Bey-blades.
Rockstar: We decided to play Hide n Seek today because (friend) wanted to also practice his song for class talent time.
Me: And…. I’m supposed to find the logic in that statement. Anyway how was I supposed to know that.
Rockstar: Sigh. I didn’t know either. <heavy-shouldered shrug>
Sometimes, it’s hard to feel sorry for the kid, y’know?
His friends are all so studious, to want to read the words on his t-shirt. I was wondering about the words, thanks for showing us or all of us will die of curiousity! 😀
Now that you mention, it does never cease to amaze me how literate his friends are (because a marked number are even tri-lingual, and I remind Rockstar often that he is already very lucky in terms of free time, that aside from school English and Putonghua he doesn’t also put in hours for written and spoken Korean, Japanese, etc… I actually really admire the trilingual kids, how they manage to put in that kind of time plus extra curriculars and the normal amount of math and etc homework… And we are already supposedly going to a more “laid back” school rather than one of the “homework madness” ones…