That's so 1992!

Yesterday as the youngest lamblet and I were leaving the her dr's office (she was merely there for a physical), two Hasidic men crossed our path. I could see her looking with wide eyes and could hear her starting to say something so I mumbled, "Wait until we get into the car!" She would not have been intentionally mean, but I also didn't want her to say something that could potentially sound disrespectful.

When we got into the car I launched off on how these people lived according to certain religious beliefs and how their rules were a little more strict than ours. I then said how nice it was that we lived in a country that allowed religious freedom, that people with varied beliefs or no beliefs could live and let live. That's what I was saying. I won't say what I was thinking regarding any direction our country might be taking...

Apparently the youngest lamblet was not so concerned with their beliefs, but was more concerned with their apparel choice. The first thing she said after I was finished with my lesson on America was, "Mom! Those men looked like their clothes came from 1992!"

Comments

[grasshopper]

I like to think the Hasidic men would have thought her assessment--so 1992--was totally delightful: perhaps even an issue warranting study.

[mdhatter]

I crashed at a friends place in Brooklyn couple years ago, and when I awoke, mildly hungover and momentarily disoriented, I glanced outside the window. There were maybe 500 Hasids outside, men, women, men, children, and some more men, all walking to the nearby temple, fairly covering the street for as far as I could see.

I thought I was in an entirely other universe.

[Chuckles]

You know it was a good party when you start in DC and end up in Amish country.

[Kathleen]

god I can't even remember 1992. Did they have flannel shirts tied around their waists?

[Dan Leo]

Maybe lamblet thought they were goth?

[Snag]

I hear the Goths are moving into the diamond business. It should be an interesting clash of cultures, "Bridget Meets Bernie" updated for the new millennium.

[Jennifer]

Oh thanks, Kathleen! Now I'm thinking of these men ala the Seattle Scene.

Goth. :)

Snag- Bridget Loves Bernie... now there's a blast from the past.

[Adorable Girlfriend]

Lamblet wins the comments thread! Even over Bill O'Reilly.

She is so not 1992!

[Brando]

Did they have flannel shirts tied around their waists?

I was thinking they were wearing black parachute pants.

[Adorable Girlfriend]

I still think this is my favorite post.

That lamblet.