What kind of a pirate are you, anyway?
The last thing the Scott family wants to do is BLEND IN.
Make no mistake, If there’s a chance to party & play along, our family will be there.
Dance? Check! We’re ALL in.
Sing along or even take the stage? We’re all over that, too.
Dress up & play. YES, please!
Follow all the societal rules? NOPE. We’re OUT.
I’m the greatest illustrator of this on a regular basis, but Noah is a close second. He lives to push the boundaries and find new experiences in the midst of the ordinary. He seeks to make life extraordinary.
The only problem is, sometimes others just don’t GET it. In fact, sometimes they run. Recently on a Disney cruise, some people physically scurried away from Noah - and we were left wondering what’s UP with people’s sense of humor, anyway?
You see, nearly every Disney cruise includes a “Pirates in the Caribbean” night of celebrations, where everyone dresses as pirates, dances like pirates & even eats pirate food for dinner & again at a late night buffet following the only fireworks at sea. Pretty awesome, right?
Four of us dressed as traditional pirates. And then there was Noah.
Noah wore a trenchcoat & dark glasses. Inside the trenchcoat were 4 movie cases with covers of movies that hadn’t come out yet. Hannah sewed them in with elastic loops, so when he opened his trenchcoat while asking “Want to buy a pirated movie?” in a gravelly voice, he had something to offer to those on the receiving end of the joke.
Except hardly anyone got the joke! One poor “I was born a grandma” looking lady appeared terrified, like our little family had brought an outlaw aboard the ship. The people who did get it would always pause for just a second to process what had happened, before bursting into laughter. Sadly, those people were few and far between.
Lighten up, folks. Play along. Join in the fun! Look beyond the ordinary & you may find the extraordinary. If you’re truly lucky, you may find something or someone as extraordinary as Noah.
