I‘m an American currently in a commonwealth country. I was going down the path in the local park, shorelining with my cane when I passed a kid, maybe 5 years old, going the other way.

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”Are you playing cricket?” the kid asked.

”Me?” I asked.

”Yeah. Are you playing cricket?”

I couldn’t help but laugh out loud.
Several times a week in this same park, I hear kids yell loudly to their parents, ”What is that person doing with that stick???”
It happened twice just today after the cricket kid.
One day, I was holding a sighted guide’s arm in the same park and only sort of holding my cane as a signal and the loud question came again from a nearby kid. The mom explained that it was to help me since I can’t see and she asked her kid if he could see how that works. The kid answered loudly, “No.” Haha. Of course he douldn’t because I wasn’t actually using the cane at the time, just holding it. At least he was honest.
Kids make me laugh, but “Are you playing cricket” is now my favorite question.

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Definitely surpasses the adult that asked if it was a metal detector. (I wish I’d replied that “yes, it detects metal by making a clanging noice when it hits metal.”)