Kids

I was standing idly nearby the bus stop waiting for my bus that evening. There wasn't many people around and I wanted to enjoy the cool evening breeze, so I just positioned myself outside the bus stop nearby the bus stop glass wall.

I started fiddling on my cellphone to kill the time, browsing through websites mostly.
Suddenly a little girl ran up from behind me and just forced her way through the little space between me and the glass wall, almost knocking off my bag from my hand in the process.

There were lots of spaces everywhere else but there, mind you, so I was rather surprised and a bit ticked off.

"Psh, kids", so I thought.

The little girl continued hopping around, cheerfully laughed as she rejoined two ladies that I saw coming from the same direction as her. Apparently she was trying to race her mother and her mother friends who was strolling casually, taking the path in front of the bus stop while she took the path behind the bus stop instead. They all then continued walking away from the bus stop.

I quickly resumed my browsing activity in my cellphone when I saw from the corner of my eyes the little girl suddenly turned mid-step, pointing at me and exclaimed, "Guarda che bello il rosso!" (look, how beautiful is the red colour!)

To which the mother too turned at me, "Si, bello!" (yeah, beautiful!).
I was wearing my red shirt and red headscarf that day.

And before I could even register what happened, the happy little girl has continued hopping and running as they all then continued on their path.

Aww, I didn't even have the chance to smile to them for their compliments to my colour.
Kids are wonderful in their own way, aren't they? :)