Stop The Bells!

Little man and I were in the parking lot of a very busy store and he managed to pull off quite a trick. He embarrassed me. Embarrassed me to the point that I actually turned red. Let me do a little bit of back ground set up here before I actually go into it. Santa put a much desired antenna topper in my stocking, Guido from the movie Cars. Guido is the little blue fork lift that pulls off a very fast pit stop, he is also my favorite character in the movie. So naturally the topper went on almost immediately. I was, and honestly still am, amused at the little blue guy flying down the road on my antenna. So now you know what Guido is, let me move on with my set up. It was a very busy store and a very large parking lot, and my car is a typical make and model and it's white too boot, so it blends in. In other words...I lose my car in parking lots. Another reason I like Guido. Last part of the set up, I am not a racist person in any way shape or form. I am the result of world trading, and in general I just don't understand treating one person better or worse than any other because of something like race. I say go off of intelligence, or something more practical. Now just remember the set up.
Little man and I were walking through the very busy parking lot looking for my car. I think, brilliantly, to tell the 4 year old to look for the Guido antenna topper. What I don't think about is how he will react when he finds it, screaming with joy "Guido, Guido, I see Guido!" In this insane little high pitched chant that directly brings everyone within a five mile radius to stare at us. But no, that's not bad, what is bad is that he's pointing toward the car. People don't see him pointing at the car or the car topper, they see him pointing at the gentleman walking near my car of very obvious Italian decent. People were stopping in their places to comment about the racist little boy and how terrible it is that he could be raised like that. To make it worse the gentleman walking near my car had stopped and stood agape. As we approached him I could see he was getting ready to say something, but I quickly told my little man, "That's right honey, that's our Guido car antenna topper!" I saw the look of understanding cross the mans face as we proceeded to climb into the car, and I heard him chuckle. So folks, yuck it up at my expense, we all need to remember that things aren't nearly as serious as we take them sometimes. Ah, to have the innocence of a child again.