The one time (so far) that Mallory has made me wonder if I should cringe was with a dude in a wheelchair. He said something along the lines of "Mommy, that man has wheels!" I said "Yes, he's sitting in a wheelchair." Mallory said, "And he can go vrroooommm!" and made a swooping motion with his hand.
At which point the guy's lip twitched in a smile, so I did the smile/nod thing at him and kept going, for fear Mal would ask the guy for a ride. Or demand that his chair transform into Optimus Prime.
His friends are a pretty mixed-race group, which I hadn't really thought about until we were playing alphabet games the other day, and he said, "K is for Khasan, and G is for Gianni, and Y is for Yah-wei."
corn chex because this is cool: [link]
(and the URL is indicative of ... something)
There seems to be this new thing with certain well-read parents that there are conversations which ought to be had, and so I'm often a springboard for, like, The Crip Conversation. Which somehow makes me twitchy, like I'm on a list of Formative Moments or something, and I didn't prepare, or anything. It's weirder too because that's a conversation completely led by the parents: "Oh, um, Snotleigh was just curious about your chair," when that was not the vibe I really get from from little S. herself. It's like they are crossing off Broken People are Really Okay too and they are good to go till she sees the neighbor kid's penis.(edited to put in "kid" so it's not such a heavy context) Somehow it bugs me to be instructive.
A world of agreement to this. Please do not take your kid up to me and ask me to explain to them why I walk funny, especially if I don't know you.
For me it depends on how old the kid is who says something to me. I think school aged children should have learned better, but toddlers don't bother me. It also bugs me if a child is repeatedly and loudly drawing attention to me while their parents pretend to ignore them.
I got a new phone today. Like landline phone. New number, all that jazz. I haven't given the number to anyone and I've already had five calls.
Sounds like having your name put on the do not call list should be part of the package when getting a phone, Victor.
So glad I don't have a landline anymore.
Can't you do that online nowadays somehow?
Sounds like having your name put on the do not call list should be part of the package when getting a phone, Victor.
Sadly not the case. When I got my mom a cell, she was getting spanish phone calls for a long time. They didn't seem to believe she 1) didn't speak spanish, and 2) that the person they were wanting to talk to didn't have that number anymore. @@
There used to be a significant waiting period before a number was recycled. NSM anymore.
Can't you do that online nowadays somehow?
Yep. www.donotcall.gov
Ever since I moved and got my new number, I keep getting debt collector calls. At least 1 per week. For several different people. All not me. It gets annoying.
I've gotten a number of spanish emails to my gmail account
