GRANDFATHER KNOWS BEST?

Yesterday Sunny and Bum left for Hawaii after Sunny stayed with us for over a month…we had a great time and we’re going to really miss her…because the airlines won’t let kids under fourteen fly without a parent or guardian Bum volunteered to fly back with her…( a tuff job someone has to do)…they flew out of Oakland airport, the only airport except San Diego that flies directly to Hilo…we had another good occasion to visit Debby and Leesa in the Bay Area for a few days…

While she stayed with us, and on a few occasions while watching HER favorite TV shows, she posed interesting questions totally out of the blue:

One night we were watching ‘So You Think you can Dance’, or whatever it’s called, one of Sunny’s favorite shows…the contestants were voted down to eight remaining…as the show developed votes were tabulated eliminating two dancers, but we didn’t know which two…when the first (African American) girl did her number Bum and I thought she was awful…when a second (African American) girl did her dance we again thought she should be removed too…
out of nowhere she asked us both why we didn’t like ‘Brown’ people! A word she uses…we both told her we didn’t like them because their dancing was not up to par and we didn’t vote them out because they were ‘Brown’…not sure she believed us but we didn’t want to get into long discussions…we would not have won…she is a debating queen…never loses…

Sunny and I were watching Hanna Montana one afternoon; and again out of nowhere she asked:
“Papa, were you a nerd when you were little?” I should have answered “Probably not” and she would have bought it, but instead I said “No and why do you ask?” and she replied: “because you look like one now”.