wispfox

An older gentleman, to a child: "Look, there's a girl in that tree!"

Same guy, to me: "Do you live in that tree?"

... "No, it really wouldn't be very comfortable."
(What do I look like, a dryad? Shorts and t-shirt doesn't seem very dryad-like...)

Same guy: "Are you visiting someone? Birds, or squirrels, maybe?"

*blink* "No, just sitting here and looking around."
(and petting the bark, and hugging the tree, and watching the sunlight reflect off the leaves, and other such things...)

Later, while climbing down...

Same guy: "Do you need help getting down?"

"Um, no. All set!" (meanwhile, thinking "Don't you think that if I can get up here, I can get back down again?")

The child: "Why are you in that tree?"

"Because I like climbing trees."

The child again: "Really? I'm not allowed to climb trees yet, I'm only five."

My first thought was that he'd never thought to ask, and my second was that if he was able to climb the tree, he was probably old enough, with a bit of warning about testing branch strength first.

Strange. Although, truthfully, it was amazing enough that either of them _noticed_. Most people don't look up. Not that I was really all that far up. And not that they were all that far away when they saw me.