Strange Sight

It was a Saturday and I was out on one of the rare occasions where I was in Chinatown with my Mother and little sister. I just got my hair cut and my mom wanted to go and get some groceries for the night's dinner.

Because I didn't want to wait inside the grocery store, and neither did my sister, we elected to go out and wait by the street, directly in front of the store, right in front of the vegetables and newspapers and the seemingly always wet concrete. It was better than staying inside the perpetually dirty and fishy smelling grocery store (comes with the territory if you actually sell fish)

So this guy comes out of the grocery store with his dad. Now, the dude couldn't have been older than me, but he certainly was bigger (I'm 5 "5 in comparison -- short, but that shouldn't stop you, ladies). He had this real "Don't fuck with me" kinda attitude, the sorta person that doesn't take bullshit and bad news too well. His little brother was less like him and more "in the moment" and completely happy for being in it. The kid looked downright jovial in comparison to his ultra serious big bro. So the little kid goes in one direction play pretending like he was either an airplane or Superman (can't really tell what goes on in a little kid's mind). His big bro and their father were going in the other direction.

Now, at this point I was thinking that the little kid should be more mindful of his surroundings. Will the kid snap out of his daydream and follow his family? Will the kid's family even notice that this little kid was too busy playing in his pretend world that he's ? How pissed off will this bigger brother look if he found out his little brother went missing? Is there an even more pissed off face than the one he wears?

But I guess I didn't really have much to wonder about. It was like he had this sixth sense of where his brother is. Without turning his head, the big brother snapped his fingers, yelled "Phillip!" and like a little dog, his brother came scampering up to his sides.

My sister and I witnessed this and I remarked that I've never seen such a well trained sibling. We both laughed and felt sorry for this dude's little brother.

Then, my sister turned to me looked me in the eyes and said, "If you ever treated me like that, I would've cut your balls off".

Somehow I get the feeling I missed out on an opportunity when my parents looked to me to babysit my sister when we were younger.