Austin Weird Watch: Overheard...

at the Zilker Kite Festival:

Irritable Dad [holding the kite string spool and addressing a girly 6-year-old in a pretty dress who's holding the kite and looking muddled]: No, hold it up! Higher! Turn it around! Other way!

[Fumbling continues.]

Irritable Dad: SWEETIE, I NEED TO SEE BARBIE!