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We did a whole lot of nothing during spring break this year, what with the pandemic and not being able to leave the house. I kind of hit a wall on the whole “cruise ship activities director” role that homeschooling thrust on me, and spent the week watching Chinese TV while the kids played video games. But we did have one day of organized family fun, and it was entirely at the initiative of the kids.
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Movies always show groups of old men sitting around playing board games in the park, but I had never seen it in real life. Then I ran across these old men in Qingdao. I had to have a picture, but I didn’t want to walk up to them and interrupt their game to ask permission, especially when I knew it would involve dealing with language barriers and probably result in an awkwardly stage photo anyway.
So I told my daughter to hold pose for an picture, then zoomed behind her to capture the oldsters across the street. I’m pretty sure they never noticed, but my kid was on to me instantly.
“You just pretended to take a picture of me so you could take one of those old men, didn’t you?” she accused. Caught out, I refocused and took a second picture, this time of her face. But she still disapproved my deceptive little game.