Today the headline on the local paper concerned a machete attack in Parker’s Piece. I was pondering this as we walked across Christ’s Piece (for those of you who do not live in the U.K. think “park”) as my elder child chat chat chatted away.
Suddenly she gasped and exclaimed Did you see that?
No, what?
Some man just got all up in your face and hissed!
No way!
Yes way!
I didn’t see anything of the sort!
Later some other fellow was apparently trying to make eye contact and wiggling his eyebrows at me.
I denied any such thing happened, so she reminded me of the time some random person in San Francisco tried to talk to me as I ignored him. Eventually he hollered at my daughter Hey! Tell your mother that she is beautiful!
Though I didn’t know that part until the child mentioned it hours later. I am immune to such things.
Happy Valentine’s Day if you are into that sort of thing!