Let’s just say you are 50 something and sitting minding your own business in a suburban haircutters, when you hear the following conversation. How would it make you feel? 

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Mommy: “T-Bot, you can go sit up the front, they have magazines and books…”

T-Bot (squirming): “Mommy? Where? ”

Mommy: “In the seating area. The lady is going to cut Baby Sisters hair, it will only take 10 minutes ”

T-Bot (loudly): “Mommy, I can’t sit there. There are OLD people. Mommy, I don’t like OLD people”. 

Mommy (squinting to see): “You mean, um, hrghmm… OldER people…”

T-Bot: (up an octave): “No Mommy, I can’t sit next to them. They are really OLD!” 

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Not being in my fifties yet, I am still pondering on how it would make me feel. Is this cute or bratty? Would it be cute coming from a 3 year old? But bratty from a 6 year old? I still haven’t decided. So I gave him the benefit of the doubt.