Isaiah has the tiniest bladder ever, so we stopped at a gas station to go potty on the way home from swimming lessons. I was standing in line to pay for a drink (post-workout dying of thirst) while he went. When he came out and joined me in line. We were standing behind a man, lots of piercings, tats, baggy jeans, black hoodie sweatshirt, you get the picture.
Isaiah was at eye level with the man's back pocket. I saw him staring intently at the contents of the pocket, and before I could say anything, he reached up and poked something sticking out of the man's back pocket. I tsked at him and whispered, "Zay, you don't touch people's pockets man." As I said this, the man reached around to check his wallet and I noticed his other hand was holding his cell to his ear.
Just as I was thinking about my gratefulness for his conversation as it would excuse me from making apologies for my son who likes to poke people in the butt apparently, I look back to Zay to see him tapping the man on the elbow. What? I say, "Zay, he's on the phone. Leave him alone."
The man then turns to us and says to the person on the phone, "Hold on, there's a kid here trying to talk to me and I don't want to be rude." To Zay, "Yeah buddy, what is it?"
Isaiah, "Do you know you have a BINGO card in your pocket?"
Man, "Do I?" He pulls it out. Sure enough there is a scratch off BINGO card that I couldn't see because his sweatshirt was covering it.
Isaiah: "Where did you get it?"
Man, "My girlfriend gave it to me. I don't know if its a winner or not. OK?" Very pleasant and polite.
Zay nods and he goes back to his conversation, turning around. I looked at Zay with a perplexed look.
Zay said, "What? I thought only kids played BINGO."
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Awesomest story ever! That's something I would've done as a kid.
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