Recent observations

[ailbhe]

This evening:
A: Are you drowning my baby?
R: No, she's doing it quite effectively by herself.

Overheard in a queue for ferry check-in on Saturday morning:
Are there any fucken muslims here?
I was deligh'e' when they shot that fella yesterday.
They should bomb the fucken mosque, that's be a pleasant change.

Seen, not overheard, on the ferry on Saturday: A woman pouring Coke (Coca-Cola) from a labelled bottle into a toddler's bottle, the kind with a teat, like for drinking formula or milk.

Comments

[ailbhe]

Everyone brings up other people's children in their heads...

The trouble is that it's the minor infractions (She's not wearing both socks!) that get commented on, because we're all afraid to remark on the major ones (You're beating her! If you did that to me, an adult, it would be assault! Stoppit!)

But I said nothing to her. She almost certainly already knew she was wrong to be doing it, and I'm not a diplomat.

[baratron.livejournal.com]

She's not wearing both socks! lol! (literally)

I admit I don't much care for small children, thus I do not spend much time around small children - but even I know that babies will take off their socks (and slippers, and mittens...) and throw them around the room. How you're supposed to stop this, I don't know. To be honest, I still do take off my slippers and throw them, although I try to aim for somewhere where I won't trip over them and will be able to find them again.

Unless it was indirect communication to say something like "I saw a sock on the pavement back there, was it yours?" or "Have you checked the changing room for the other sock?". In which case it failed utterly.

[k425.livejournal.com]

How you're supposed to stop this, I don't know.

Staples. Or superglue.

Stop looking at me like that...