Your letter, was only the start of it.

[davywavy]

On Saturday I found myself sauntering around the Colombian gold exhibition at the British Museum with ditzy_pole. I’m not much of a one for Mesoamerican art; I think it’s often a bit grotesque and alien and it doesn’t really speak to me, but hey, I’m a member of the British Musuem and can walk past the crowds of babbling tourists and saunter into any old exhibition I choose whenever I like so I reckoned I might as well make the most of it.
Anyway, as usual the exit from the exhibition was through the gift shop – these things can’t be cheap to put on – and there was the usual high-quality tat, amongst which was a rack of genuine Colombian peasant art.
Now I didn’t know this but it seems making small model animals out of single lengths of coiled string or twine is a traditional Colombian craft and I found myself looking at these whilst my charming lady companion busied herself looking at expensive gold jewellery. Standing next to me, doing the same thing as me, was a small girl of about seven or eight, and as she did so she was saying to herself “…and this is a giraffe, and this is an octopus, and this is a cow…” and so on. I held one up and showed it her. “I really like the Rhinocerous”, I said. And I did. It was charmingly hopeless, like a grey pig with a horn. In return she just gave me one of those serious stares which only small children can manage and turned and walked off.
That’s me told, I thought.

Anyway, I went to wait outside and leaned against the wall, checking my mail. As I stood there the little girl, holding her mothers hand, walked past. She pointed at me and said in a clear, carrying voice “THAT'S THE MAN, MUMMY”. Everyone in earshot turned and just stared at me, including her mother who gave me a glare which could have cracked stone.

I’ve never felt more like Jimmy Savile in my life.

Comments

[moomin-puffin.livejournal.com]

Good luck to that child in forming any trust based relationships in the future. It is awful that a lot of parents seem to think that every man who is nice to a child is a paedo, and encourage their children to be suspicious of everything. It is a shame for the child, and it is awful for men who are scared to be friendly. To quote Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip 'Thou shalt not think any male over the age of 30 that plays with a child that is not their own is a paedophile. Some people are just nice'.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Punch that child of yours for me, would you? I like to keep her in her place.

[moomin-puffin.livejournal.com]

Nice...and yet she still adores you...go figure ;-)

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Brainwashing and hypnosis.

[(Anonymous)]

How about that then?

H