So me and my little guy Jason are hanging out this week. We drop in to a hobby shop to check out the models and such. This is the following conversation I has with a well meaning elderly gent.
He says, hey looky there we got a young man looking for his first model. I smile and say: maybe, depends on what they have in the snap fit area. The man says he built his first model when he was 7 and we caht for a bit....then his face turns sour, he gets this kind of sympathetic look on his face and says is there something wrong with him? I shake my head and smile and say nope,ain't nothin' wrong with this guy. The man points again and says: well what's them things in his ears? I said: Oh, those? Those are his hearing aids, he is deaf. The man again looks sad and says: Boy I sure hate to see that....To which I reply...Well sir, you could look at it like that, or you could see it from my point of view. Me and my boy are shopping for model cars, we will go home play video games, catch, we will go swimming, bowling, we will ride bicycles and we will run and jump, drink soda and eat too much candy....sir, there ain't NOTHIN' wrong with this one. He ain't in a hospital bed with tubes hooked up to him and I don't have to worry that today might be our last together......the old man smiled, and said, well son...I guess you got a handle on it then huh? I smiled and said oh yeah, we got this....lol....I have come a long way...years ago I woulda snapped at the guy...but instead I used some words to change his point of view....
He says, hey looky there we got a young man looking for his first model. I smile and say: maybe, depends on what they have in the snap fit area. The man says he built his first model when he was 7 and we caht for a bit....then his face turns sour, he gets this kind of sympathetic look on his face and says is there something wrong with him? I shake my head and smile and say nope,ain't nothin' wrong with this guy. The man points again and says: well what's them things in his ears? I said: Oh, those? Those are his hearing aids, he is deaf. The man again looks sad and says: Boy I sure hate to see that....To which I reply...Well sir, you could look at it like that, or you could see it from my point of view. Me and my boy are shopping for model cars, we will go home play video games, catch, we will go swimming, bowling, we will ride bicycles and we will run and jump, drink soda and eat too much candy....sir, there ain't NOTHIN' wrong with this one. He ain't in a hospital bed with tubes hooked up to him and I don't have to worry that today might be our last together......the old man smiled, and said, well son...I guess you got a handle on it then huh? I smiled and said oh yeah, we got this....lol....I have come a long way...years ago I woulda snapped at the guy...but instead I used some words to change his point of view....
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