Took a call from a lady who wanted me to pass on a message.
She wanted her husband to know that their son wanted his Daddy to return his call.
Their son is barely a year old.
I don't think he's even learned to speak yet.
Thought she was just being cutesy; but found out afterwards that, when she spoke of her child, she always ascribed him very complex thought processes, needs and desires.
I've never intended to have children, and thus have never made any attempt to understand how they actually work. I'd alway presumed that they were simple beings, with simple needs.
Is this kind of divination typical for mothers? Is this part of that mother-child bond thing?
Or is she really a very special kind of person, with innate and profound sensitivities, who is able to sense and flesh out the full-fledged concept from her babe's nascent impulses?
Y'know, I don't think I'd be that type of mother... I'd be the frantic one standing over a baby with a formula bottle in one hand, a bosom in the other: bottle or bosom? Bottle or bosom? Which one do you want? Bottle? Blink once for yes, twice for no... What? What is it? Am I about to have a seizure? Is Timmy down a well? *What* ~ *do* ~ *you* ~ *want*?!?
Posted by edgar at November 26, 2004 02:49 PM