Waiting in the check-out line:
Lady with no boundaries (to Addie): Oh, you don’t need that pacifier!
Me: Sometimes it’s the only way I can get anything done at the store. Gotta choose my battles.
Lady: Well, my daughter takes away the pacifier as soon as her kids get out of bed.
Me: Good for her.
Lady: My grandson was in preschool when he got thrush and it hurt too much to suck on it.
Me: Thrush is preschool? I didn’t know kids that age got thrush.
Lady (ignoring my comment): So he decided to give it away to a baby and never had another pacifier again.
Me: Wow.
Addie: suck, suck
Lady with no boundaries goes to counter to pay.
Eavesdropper: All four of my children had pacifiers. They are 13-25 now and guess what, they no longer have pacifiers.
Me: Yeah, I’m not too worried about it
Eavesdropper: The world would be a better place if we all used pacifiers. It would keep us from saying a lot of stupid things.
Agreed.
{ 6 comments… read them below or add one }
Nina Simone 03.15.10 at 10:10 pm
Oh Lindsey! Do not even get me started about people with no boundaries and other people’s children! I could rant and rant about strangers trying to hug or pick up(!!!) my 3-year old who I am desperately trying to teach to keep her hands to herself and respect other people’s space. A woman at PetSmart Picked Sophia up from behind! I needed more than a pacifier after that scene.
Mallory 03.16.10 at 9:03 am
I can’t stand people who do things like that!!! How rude! Good for you for saying something back, sometimes those comments catch me so off guard I can barely respond.
shannon 03.16.10 at 9:27 pm
I FEEL YOUR PAIN. OH, HOW I FEEL YOUR PAIN! {”Are they girls? NO? REALLY they are not girls?” No, they are boys. Both of them are boys. They wear blue. “Is that one a girl? What happened to her eye?” GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.}
Jaime Campbell 03.17.10 at 12:09 am
That is hysterical. How golden to have a common sense eavesdropper nearby. Bless her, right?!
Mary 03.22.10 at 9:49 am
of course you would notice boundaries.
I have none either.
I actually told a lady to take the paci out of her kids mouth in the walmart last night
and now, after reading your blog I feel convicted
thanks for having posts for me to read
megan R 04.23.10 at 4:41 pm
hilarious, i love it! a lady with no boundaries informed me the other day that my child needed a nap