Sunday, March 9, 2008

Trained Responses

Here's one for you: this morning in church I was walking down a hall with an unoccupied baby carrier - Ruth and Simeon were elsewhere. I had a coat and a shoulder bag in the carrier. I passed an elderly lady who looked down into the carrier and went, "Awwwwww."

I didn't stop... just smiled and kept on walking. It got me thinking.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hehehe, yeah.
Or perhaps her eyesight was bad and she thought she saw a baby? Or she was "awwing" at what she thought was the sight of a young father carrying his son? In many seniors' day the male of the species was not always involved in (at least public) child-care...and with so many men today taking to their heels at the first sign of a child...it may have been refreshing to her.
Or a trained response. LOL. Nice. <><

Anonymous said...

Nope, I think it definitely means your son looks like a coat. heh heh

~ Angelique