Embarrassing Moment

My grandson went shopping with Mom and Dad at one of those huge improvement stores on the weekend. While sitting in the shopping cart, little Aidan saw a man with a black beard, black hat and black suit down the aisle. He was, obviously, a conservative Jewish believer. The man was carrying a bottle of Coke. Aidan is only 14 months and not a master of English vocabulary yet, so when he spied the bottle, he pointed at the bottle, in the direction of the man, shouting the only word he knows for bottled liquid that you drink. Except that he has only mastered half the word, so it came out: "Juu!  Juu! Juu!" instead of "Juice!" The man looked up startled at the little blond-haired tyke shouting this and pointing in his direction. Aidan's parents tried to explain, and I hope he figured out what happened. And it really did happen.

Comments

[Juli]

Oh, dear! (That's a great story.)

[Joe Long]

I have a feeling he'll get amusement from that for years...I hope so, anyway!

[John Rush]

Amazing coincidence.

My 1 year old daughter says the same thing about juice. I'll keep my eyes open the next time we're all in public.

However, kids have a way of embarrasing for which there is not real defense...

Good story!

JRush

[Adrienne]

That is too funny!

Someone told me about a movie she saw (I think it was a rather obscure one) about an Amish man who leaves his Amish community and somehow ends up in a public place...an airport or train station, maybe? (no, I'm not talking about the film "Witness", btw). So he sees what he thinks is another Amish man, dressed all in black with the black hat and long beard, gets excited to see one of his own people nearby, and goes running up to the other man crying, "Brudder! Brudder!" The guy turns to him and is very obviously Jewish, leaving the poor Amish man very confused and embarrassed.

[Adrienne]

Oh, I'm sorry, I looked on imdb, and I think the movie she told me about was called "Frisco Kid". And it was the reverse situation -- a rabbi sees an Amish man, goes up to him yelling "Brother, brother!" in Yiddish, then faints after seeing the Amish man's cross and bible.