Night before last I got almost no sleep due to stressing out over my car. My car, in the meanwhile, sleeps fine as near as I can figure
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If it was her first newborn, actually, I'd not be too terribly surprised that she'd think that. Brand new first time moms seem, to me, to be...um.. Is there a polite way to put this? Paranoid.
Granted, I do not have kids. But brand new first time moms invariably make me roll my eyes and think "good lord, the kid isn't that fragile. They've been making them for centuries and they're pretty sturdy." But the only solution to that, I've found, is to let the mom have her third kid. By that time she'll be all "ok, he's eating mud? is it your mud? is that why I should.. ok, fine, I'll go stop him."
[nod] Having had my own car fun last week I definitely know the brain freeze that can come from a moment when there are at least 3 immediate dangers that all require immediate attention. So I can totally get why she might have an initial brain fart on the breaking the window vs. running home to get her keys which, to her mind, were only 2 min away.
So I definitely understand that.
Still harping on about it after she was told by 911 though... then it does start to get curious.
My best friend and I joke about how we should not be allowed to have a third child (we each have 2) because the third kid would be out there playing in the middle of the street, juggling sharp knives, investigating all the household cleaners... you get the idea.
There's a "Baby Blues" cartoon that does "Before kids" and "After kids". In the "Before kids" panel you see the couple walking through a park, spying a child dressed in the most garish, mismatched clothing possible, and basically saying "Tsk, how can anyone let their child out looking like that?"
In the "After kids" panel you see the same couple with their own daughter dressed just as garishly and saying "Eh, at least she's dressed."
My little town has apparently been hit by a bit of controversy over a mother who accidentally locked her newborn in her car and then argued with 911, the firefighters, and the cops about breaking the window to save the kid. She claims it's because she worried that the broken glass would hurt her child.
Wow. I can't imagine even caring about the car window. And as for the kid ... a few cuts from flying glass would be no fun, but EMTs would be there to tend to him right away, and in any case it's mucvh less likely to kill him than roasting alive is.
I'm convinced that Stephen Colbert is the result of some whacky space-time shenanigans in which Wesley Wyndam-Price, after Sunnydale, became a humorist/tv personality/fake anchorman instead of a Rogue Demon Hunter.
Tommy would give her what-for, that's for damn sure *nods* And much as I do believe in the power of language, how much did I adore his sensitivity-train-me-when-I-leave-someone-behind speech? A whole lot.
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Granted, I do not have kids. But brand new first time moms invariably make me roll my eyes and think "good lord, the kid isn't that fragile. They've been making them for centuries and they're pretty sturdy." But the only solution to that, I've found, is to let the mom have her third kid. By that time she'll be all "ok, he's eating mud? is it your mud? is that why I should.. ok, fine, I'll go stop him."
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So I definitely understand that.
Still harping on about it after she was told by 911 though... then it does start to get curious.
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There's a "Baby Blues" cartoon that does "Before kids" and "After kids". In the "Before kids" panel you see the couple walking through a park, spying a child dressed in the most garish, mismatched clothing possible, and basically saying "Tsk, how can anyone let their child out looking like that?"
In the "After kids" panel you see the same couple with their own daughter dressed just as garishly and saying "Eh, at least she's dressed."
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My little town has apparently been hit by a bit of controversy over a mother who accidentally locked her newborn in her car and then argued with 911, the firefighters, and the cops about breaking the window to save the kid. She claims it's because she worried that the broken glass would hurt her child.
Wow. I can't imagine even caring about the car window. And as for the kid ... a few cuts from flying glass would be no fun, but EMTs would be there to tend to him right away, and in any case it's mucvh less likely to kill him than roasting alive is.
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It confuses me and excites me.
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Much better than what some colleagues and I did during some mandatory training a while back.
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