Must be the Beans

I went to Michaels yesterday to try and find some springtime crafts. I swear that store draws me in just like Target and I can spend forever wandering around getting ideas. At least, that is, when my kids aren't with me. So as I am looking through some of the fake flowers the woman next to me starts talking to me in Spanish. She is an older woman, maybe late 60's, who looked very friendly and was admiring the flowers and noting what a good price they were. Rather than insult her with my spanglish I nodded and smiled and continued my search. She then looked at me rather intently and asked - in english this time- Are you mexican? At that moment I cannot tell you how many things flashed through my brain. Vocab words from AP Spanish class, the time I met my dad's family in Mexico and they asked me how old I was in Spanish and I answered "fine", the stunned faces that met mine when I walked into my first Mensa club meeting. I quickly blurted out no, for fear that she would then expect me to speak to her in Spanish, but then corrected myself and said something profound like, "Well, yeah...my dad is but umm I don't speak spanish umm sorry?" She politely did not laugh in my face but I was totally humiliated. I should add here that I am easily embarrassed and completely hormonal right now. I spent the rest of the day wondering what about me she saw that clued her in to the fact that I am, in fact, half mexican. The blond hair and blue eyes usually throw people off, which is why I spent a great deal of time in high school trying desperately to convince people that I did have some spanish flair in me. Sadly the only thing I could come up with is that I have been eating a ton of beans lately because they are Weight Watcher point friendly and maybe she could smell them on me. Usually in the summer I tan really nicely which can sometimes clue people in but right now I am winter pasty white, so I know that wasn't it. Why do I even spend time overthinking these things? I think I need to give my brain a rest and go make brownies, which I know are not point friendly but they taste really really good.