Two random things related to going to a nearby city to shop this morning

(Yes, clumsy title.  However, it is pretty descriptive, and I can't be bothered to think of another one.  So it stays!)

I was in a department store with some of my family today.  It fell to me to take care of my little sister, and the rest of my family left the shop while I searched for somewhere to pay with my little sister.  My little sister is three.

So, my little sister gave something I wanted to buy to the woman behind the counter.  And the woman behind the counter said to my little sister, "I'll put that in a little bag for you and you can carry it for mummy."

!!!!!

She quite obviously thought that I was my little sister's mummy, and I just smiled.  There was no point in doing anything else.

After she'd put my purchases in a bag, she handed them to my little sister, and said, "You can carry it for mummy."

I'm not sure what my little sister thought of this.  She knows I'm not her mummy.

I suppose it's just as well that I'm past the stage where I'd be offended if someone suggested that my little sister is my child.

Oh, and while shopping, my sister and I bought identical black skirts.  It's been a long time since we've had anything identical.  Last time we bought identical clothes we were quite a bit younger, and so the clothes were in different sizes.  This time, though, our identical clothes are identical sizes.  Fun, fun, fun.

I think one, or both, of us will have to find a permanent marker and mark the label of the skirt(s) so that there can be no arguments about whose skirt is awaiting the washing machine and whose skirt has just finished drying on the radiator.

However, it would be fun to dress almost identically and go somewhere.  We've both got pink roll neck jumpers (albeit slightly different) and pink tee shirts (again, slightly different) but I hope the overall effect would be enough to make people think they were seeing double...