Grandpa and Baby Girl
October 30th, 2009. Published under my neighborhood. 4 Comments.
Took these pictures of an old Korean shopkeeper and a little girl that he was probably babysitting for the day. Couldn’t resist it. They gave me an early morning laugh. I went into his store on the corner of Third and Vermont streets to have a key duplicated. I also wanted an adjustment on my watch bracelet. While the laconic old man went behind the counter , the little girl went around the store like a tornado in pink and stripes, opening shelves and turning on musical toys. Seeing her grandfather working on my watch , she also got some tools and started pounding away on a low bench, glancing at him from time to time just to make sure she was doing it right. Funny girl! When it was time for me to go, she hurriedly snatched a few of her grandpa’s merchandise and gave them to me. This girl enjoys playing shop just as much as I did when I was small.
Flashback: 1975-1979, Riverside Bakery. Me, Bambi, Ritchie, Michi, Rikki. Tearing up bags of candies being sold by my Lola – Love, Snow Bear, Kendi Mint, White Rabbit. Setting up shop by the fence just a few feet away from my Lola’s bakery. Calling out to passersby to come and buy our purloined candies. My poor grandmother never complained. How could she have been so tolerant?
4 Comments
Chiqui on November 23rd, 2009
we must have been such pests as kids. she used to sell candies by the bag, not by the piece. but we would just go into her store and tear up those bags para ka baligya-baligya kami. if i were the lola I would have scolded my grandkids. we used to love jumping up and down on their bed. imagine a gang of kids doing that to your bed. she and lolo just laughed, happy to see that we were enjoying ourselves. my grandmother was kind of grumpy, but i wonder why she never scolded us for all those stupid things we did.
bambi on November 25th, 2010
Hey Chiq, Happy Birthday! Ti ano handa mo? Turkey?
Chiqui on November 26th, 2010
Thanks, Bam. Nagbakal lang a. Spaghetti.
donditiples on November 23rd, 2009
What parent/grandparent wouldn’t tolerate a budding entrepreneurial inclination? The younger they start learning to earn for themselves, the less expensive it will be to bring them up. Hrhrhrhhr!