November 15, 2004

Babies are overrated

People are always talking about how great babies are. They look cute, they make cute noises, they're innocent, etc. Well, there must be some kind of international baby conspiracy because no one ever talks about the bad things. For instance, I learned last night that babies are really bad at paying attention during a choir concert. Last week I found out that babies are also really bad at listening to a lecture at the computer science colloquium.

I can totally understand the rationale for bringing a baby to these places - "Oh, little Elroy will love sitting still for two hours to hear this chamber music." Or "I bet our one month old son would really appreciate listening to Dr. Bekey talk about the robot revolution that is about to occur. Usually, he makes a lot of gurgling noises and breaks into spontaneous crying, but I bet during this lecture in a room full of quiet people he'll just fall in line."

The moral of this sarcasm is to keep your damn baby away from me when I'm trying to listen to things. I like babies as much as the next guy, but, like an ugly girlfriend, there are limits to where you can take them. The only thing babies do better than me is drool, and even then it's pretty close. Posted by mill1991 at November 15, 2004 9:55 PM | TrackBack

Comments

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FREEWAY

Posted by: Freeway at November 16, 2004 6:40 PM

This really sounds to me like a case of a very uncreative wife's birthday present...My inlaws always buy me horrible purses and shoes--which, for a girl who lives in the city sans car--is just as good as being a Fishin' Magician' (hehe)...I'm sure I mesmerize plenty of people when I'm forced to acknowledged my husband's "Honey, why don't you use the hotpink mini-backpack with Winne the Pooh on it that my mom gave you?"

Posted by: Sarah at November 16, 2004 8:34 PM

Ahh! Damn Mozilla, I can't figure out this tabbed browser biz...and I thought Freeway's comment was kinda' out there!

Sorry. Was commenting on: http://schrags.greasyweezle.net/blog/default.aspx

Posted by: Sarah at November 16, 2004 8:38 PM

That's okay - that is how most comments make it onto this blog.

Posted by: Tim at November 17, 2004 11:34 AM