How YOU doin'?

So this weekend I swung by Marc's with E to pick up some ingredients for a pasta dish I was making Saturday night (which ended up turning out pretty damn good actually). As I was perusing the produce area for some basil, this little kid (maybe 2 or 3) who was sitting in a cart being pushed by his mom shouted at me: HEY! Not unusual for a little kid as they seem to like to get attention from strangers--the occasional wave or hi or whatnot. So I looked over to give him a smile or something, and when I did, his face suddenly got all composed and serious and he did one of those "I'm bad-ass" chin-thrusts that guys do when a) they're checking out a chick and wanna let her know that they notice her (usually accompanied by a wink) or b) when they are walking by another dude and wanna do the macho "I acknowledge your existence" non-verbal Hello.

I just about busted a gut.

Someone musta taken the time to actually TRAIN this kid on how to do that, and he was spending all his grocery store time trying it out on people. E walked up to something a minute or two later and the kid again shouted "Hey you" and when E turned to smile, the kid again suddenly got this bad-ass facial expression and gave him the macho-nod. The rest of the grocery-store, I could hear the occasional HEY YOU's shouted out at random unsuspecting grocery-shoppers and just picture the accompanying chin-thrust.

What a pimp that boy's gonna be.

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