They need to go spend a few weeks at my friend C****'s house.
My friend C**** has a daughter that is 11 years old. She’s a good girl…sweet but sassy and very intelligent to boot. This could be a deadly combination in many pre-teens; however, this girl is all but typical. She definitely knows how to work what her momma gave her…that’s for sure. This girl knows when to turn on the charm, but she isn’t going to let anyone run her over either. She has sarcasm to an art and her timing is quite impeccable. She’s my kind of girl.
Miss Thang (as I prefer to call her and will in posts for privacy reasons) is “only” 11 but she’s taught me a few things, for sure. You gotta love friends that are honest enough to tell you how it is…even when you don’t wanna hear it. With this girl around I never have to worry about if I have food in my teeth or if I have toilet paper hanging in a trail from the back of my shoe. She would point this out to me in an instant, roll her pretty brown eyes at me and ask me, “Who leaves the restroom without looking to see if anything is stuck to their shoe”? I love that girl.
We live in a Podunk town in Northeast Georgia next to another Podunk town that is next to another Podunk town. It's small town America. Now there are good things about living in small town American and bad things about living in small town America...but that is another post for another day.
In said city they have what is basically soapbox derby racing during the city's annual festival. For this year's derby, Miss Thang had enrolled in her group (the groups are separated by age) and was awaiting her turn down "the stretch" when we first saw here there. There was another girl in this group as well---totalling TWO in this age category. Soon they announced her age group and she and her friend took off racing each other in their matchbox cars twice (as it was double elimination). Miss Thang not win but had an excellent time nevertheless.
When her race was finished, Miss Thang walks around the crowd to her mother who was standing beside me and exclaims to us all with a proud smile spread across her face, "I got second place!"
You heard me right. She did not lose.
She came in second.
There are no self-esteem issues with that one, I tell you. She can see the positive light in any situation...or at least how she can benefit from it. ha! She's great. Did I mention I love this kid? Ya. If I ever have a daughter she and Miss Thang are so gonna hang. You truly have to admire that kind of attitude, I don't care who you are.
My friend came up to me at work the following Monday and said, "You should have seen it. The Falcons won their game this weekend and *** (her husband) was all like, 'THE FALCONS ARE THE BEST TEAM IN THE NFL!!!!! WE ARE UNDEFEATED!!!' and I was like, "***. That was their first game of the season."
I think I may move in.
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