did I let my son convince me to dye my own hair today and subsequently go in no less than 5 minutes from blond hair to hair that is so dark brown I now won’t need a costume for Halloween?
can’t I ever just have that nerdy kid that enjoys school work, school projects, or really any kind of school work at all?
do I have the kid who every time I go to pick him up from school I am waiting to hear how the sh*t hit the fan and how I need to have some kind of ‘talk’ with some kind of ’staff member’?
can’t I have the kid that rides the bus to school, does what is supposed to at school, rides the bus home, does his homework, plays sports and goes to bed like most other kids on the planet?
do I have the kid that wants to wear do-rags when he is as white as the driven snow and we live in a predominantly white rural area where kids ride horses up and down the streets?
do I have the kid that when he puts on a do-rag ‘just to try it out’ looks like a 19th century eastern European peasant woman with a very round head wearing a babushka and preparing to work in a crop field?
do I have the kid that likes to practice dancing like a black woman in a rap video?
can he do a mean hip-pop bootie shimmy?
do I have the kid that has, as one of his many alter-egos, a Rosie Perez caricature type teenage Puerto Rican girl even though he has never known such a girl?
do I have the kid who can do a nearly perfect dramatized Puerto Rican accent even though he can’t speak Spanish and has only been to Puerto Rico for one day in his life?
can my son not write a coherent paragraph to save his life and yet can easily write a song even though he plays no instrument?
Why?
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Well, I sure don’t have any answers but was entertained by the questions…..