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My all time favorite: a little old lady comes up to me and my hisp/AA daughter (I'm cauc.) in Walmart (where else?) and says "what a cute baby...does she favor you or her father?" to which I thought for a moment and said "I really don't know who she favors because I don't know who the father is". Which is factually true. I thought she might have a stroke right there. Anyhow, back in 2003, when I first posted to this thread I had just my daughter. This year we were blessed with a beautiful son (AA). Now then of course she's almost 5 1/2 years old so I've toned it down a lot. I've never been one to suffer bad manners & stupidity but I am trying to set a good example for my kids. So the answer (or lack thereof) changes as time goes by. In my experience, people seem to have enough sense to not ask questions like that when the older child is standing right there. The dumbest questions always came when she was an infant and presumably too oblivious for it to have an impact.
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