I don't know about the rest of the world, but in Vermont in the 70's, the above line was what one shouted on a swingset if anybody on another swing randomly began to swing in tandem with you. The ultimate social rebuff from one 7 year old to another.
Somehow this leads to the feeling of a 17 year-old-girl who walks into Prom Night, theme "Against All Odds", only to see some other random girl, or perhaps your bitter rival, wearing the same dress as you which you bought thinking it was so original and brought out the blue in your eyes.
Or, when you are 7 months old, and you go to your monthly Moms-Who-Were-Pregnant-Together-During-the-Nice-Heat-Wave-and-Still-Lived-to-tell-the-Tale group, there, already encroached in a prime spot on the blanket dance floor, is some other 7 month old wearing YOUR dress.
The outrage. Your neurotic American mother frets quietly to herself, but how can it be, she thinks? Her very trendy gay friends who live near Cannes bought this outfit for you when you were born, how can it be that this other baby Pauline, who clearly you could take down if you had to, is wearing YOUR dress?
All the other mothers think it is cute, but, you know that eyebrow twitch on your own borderline-OCD-Mom's face - she regrets the choice. So many outfits in your closet, and she picks THIS one.
You are relieved to see your frenzied Mom release a smug smile when the Italian boy's mom notes that YOUR tights have "Petite Amour" written on your butt, and Pauline's butt is just, well, whatever.
Get out of my bathtub, Pauline.
3 comments:
The dress looks WAY better on Estelle!!! :)
How cute! What beautiful babies, even if two of them picked the same outfit that day!
very cute!! That middle photo, Estelle is just adorable!!!! I am so surprised to see how heavily bunlded up these little bugaboos are....don't you live in Nice, on the Riveria???? These pumpkins are dressed as if they live in the tundra zone...tights, long sleeved knits....what gives????
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