Adventures with Abe

Bring your baggage to work day

Keith brought his baby to work today. Her name is Michayla and she is six and a half months old. She is very cute and on her own, I am a fan. I like how she is wearing pink, purple, and red because her dad dressed her and probably figured that all girly colors go together. I like how she wears socks on hear hands in cold weather, and how chubby her cheeks are. I do not, however, enjoy the flock of "ooh"-ing and "ahh"-ing 50-year old women who follow her around. A different woman scoops her up and makes one of two jokes. "Let's go to my computer and I'll teach you how to shop Neiman Marcus online" or "Until your hair comes in, you'll look just like your dad!" Over and Over and Over...

Apparently, school vacation = free pass to bring your annoying child to work. Now I like children. I used to work with them, I was a counselor, a (pseudo) teacher, and I still babysit often. While I was smooshed into a group of women who are certainly past their prime to have babies of their own, a shrill voice- more annoying than the rest piped up. "Who's baby is that?" The crowd parted to reveal a skinny 10 year-old boy. Turns out that he is Her Royal Highness' (of past infamy) grandson. Unlike his grandmother who refuses to learn anything new, he had approximately 300 questions for everything he saw.

"Grandma, where were you?"
"I was right here."
"Were you in this room?"
"Yes."
"So, you were in this room, while I was outside of this room?" [here I should note that although he is not Asian, he sounds a lot like Data from the Goonies]
"Yes, and I'm not sure why you left the office."
"I couldn't find you, where were you?"

He spoke to the new receptionist at length about how coffee is different from hot chocolate. He told almost everyone who went into the kitchen (where he was ultimately left with a plastic baggy of markers and a stack of paper) about the animal he "pretty much almost saw" outside of the window. They were leaving at 12:30 as I was coming back from lunch, I don't think the office could have handled much more of him.

posted by LauraDorf @ 8:55 AM