Parents should be certified before they are allowed to have children.

[thatsevenbetter]

Rachael and I were in the subway station today, I was going with her to a dentist appointment. A woman with a child who couldn't have been more than 3 years old approached us and said something about needing to catch the two women on the other end of the platform and could we watch her son and she's not going to abandon him. We were so flustered

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Gotta love New York

[franklanguage]

All I can think is, she's probably done that before-and will do it again.

[anfractuousity]

D=

Was she ON something??

[thatsevenbetter]

nope, just a normal, terrible parent.

[bearscanfly]

There have totally been times when I've seen an adorable kid and hoped that the parent would be all, "hey, do you mind holding him/her for a minute?" but that has always just been goofy wishful thinking from a baby-crazy mind.

The thought that someone would ever actually do something like that is pretty damn terrifying.

[laeryken]

wow, this is really an amazing story. just another sad example of the lack of parenting. gah.

(sorry just saw you in AMA and was bored in the middle of the night.)

[adam_0oo]

That is amazing.