Outta the Mouth

Guess I scared a child today while at the hardware store. The boy, wearing a mask,  was in the cart his mother was pushing when he looked at her and said, “That old man looks weird without a mask.”

Embarrassed, his masked mother shushed the kid and then apologized to me. I smiled and said, “No apology needed, I affect some children that way.”

As she hurried from the paintbrush aisle, I heard the boy ask her, “I thought my mask made my voice invisible?”

I’m still chuckling.