Shopping With My Grandson

I was shopping in a department store with my 4-year-old grandson. I promised him that we would go to the toy department, but I stopped in the ladies clothing department first.

It seems that he couldn't wait that long: one second he was holding onto my pant skirt and the next, he had vanished. I panicked and looked everywhere, but I couldn't find him.

I went to the customer service desk to have them announce his name over the P.A. system, and to my relief he was already there waiting for me. The woman at the desk told me that my grandson had asked them to call me over the P.A., but he didn't know my name. So they asked him what his dad, and my son, called me. He answered "Mom."

Then they asked what his grandpa, my husband, called me. "Sugar," he replied. So then they asked what his mommy (my daughter-in-law) called me.

Very clearly, he said, "A Bitch."

On the way home, we practiced my "real" name until I was confident that he would use it the next time!