Friday, January 1, 2010

Urban Mom Strikes Again!

A few days ago, we all piled into the car here at Best Namma Ever!'s house and toodled over to the local library.  This is a fantastic library!  It's all cushy and cozy.  There are invitingly soft armchairs and ottomans scattered about, a fireplace and a psueo-cafe area where  you can drop a few coins into a machine and get a cup of coffee or hot chocolate.  The cafe has comfy booths if you don't want to sit at one of the tables with the Frank Lloyd Wright-looking chairs.  We dropped Urban Dad in the cafe area to do some work (he always has work to do, poor thing) and took the Urban Kids into the Children's Section to see what we could tear up.

As I checked in on Urban Dad in the cafe later, I noticed a Suburban Dad sitting at a booth with his two young daughters, each of whom had their own cute little netbook.  They also each had a cool little carrying case, which I've yet to procure for my own new little netbook friend.  Now let me preface the rest of this by saying that his two young daughters were both older than Urban Kid 1.  And Urban Kid 1 is six.  And she's figured out the Santa thing already.  I'm not judging or anything... I'm just saying that this is my humble micro-cosm...

So I ask Suburban Dad, "where did you get the cases for their netbooks? I just got one, but don't have a case for it yet."

Youngest Surburban Kid -- who is at least a couple of years older than Urban Kid 1 -- says brightly, "Santa brought them!"

Suburban Dad tells me without blinking an eye that they got them at American, which is where they got the computers.  He is friendly throughout the whole chat as I explain that I saw only computer sleeves at Best Buy, but that I liked that his Suburban Kids' cases had two pockets for power cords, etc.

We end our chat on a friendly note, and as I walk away I cringe as I hear a disheartened and confused little voice inquire, "I thought you said that Santa brought them......"

Yes, my work here is done.  On to create another awkward moment elsewhere. 

Because you know I will.  (*sigh*)

5 comments:

G said...

Oooo you're evil! And yes, my kids still believe in Santa.

melissa said...

This is me. Only, not when the kids were little. I was SOOoo careful then. But NOW. NOW I slip up all the time! I have to watch myself in front of my little niece and nephews. It's hard. ;-)But Happy New Year!

Anonymous said...
This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.
Uptown Girl said...

my youngest brother believed until he was 11 years old! We all thought something was wrong with him, but maybe he was just milking it?
I wish Santa would be as good to me as he was to those children...

rita said...

Yesterday was my granddaughter's 10th birthday. She still believes in Santa--more likely, though, she's afraid to quit, because she's told other kids that the good presents come from Santa, and when you stop believing in him, the stuff your parents give you just isn't as good. She had to put it together this year as they're really short on money and Santa brought her a "fake iPod, but I call it an iPod" and a fake Wii, which she calls....you get it. But she was still thrilled with the "fake" stuff.