"You like a monkey!"

Super embarrassing moment today in Uganda. The twins and I were hanging out outside of my husband's shop waiting for him when of course they draw a crowd of people wanting to talk to them. Now the back story is that they get super dirty here really fast because only a few things are paved and ground cover is not a necessity. Whenever they get really dirty, my husband gets upset and exclaims to them, "Look at yourselves! You are all messed up. You look like a monkey." So this older gentleman is talking to them and asking questions, trying to say hi and engage them. They look at him in his garden boots with mud on them and soil on his pants. And they say, "You like a monkey!" And yes he understood what they said to him. I just wanted to die--most Ugandan kids are meek and mild and barely say a peep to adults.