I’m not a parent yet, and I am surely weird in many ways, but if some random weird older guy walked up and asked if he could hold my baby I doubt my answer would be any less than “please get the heck away before I . . .”
Such a situation arose earlier at dinner at the table next to us. Random weird guy walked up to the table of total strangers, saw a baby in her mother’s arms and asked if he could hold her and wanted to bring her back to his table to show his family how cute she was. I watched as the father’s eyes grew wide with disbelief as the irritator continued to goo and gaa at the baby . . . still not clueing into the fact that he was being weird. When the mother wasn’t willing to part with her baby, random weird guy asked her back to the table with her baby and she reluctantly agreed.
Random weird guy’s wife seemed to be so embarassed by this episode that she made him pay for the couple’s dinner. At least she knew it was stinking weird.
October 29th, 2007 at 11:14 pm
yeah…that is def weird.