Grown-ups say the darndest things...
Mar. 27th, 2011 11:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aribA question I get very often, both from random strangers and my own grandmother tends to run along the lines of, "is your daughter a good baby or a bad baby?"
I'm never quite sure how to answer this one. It's not like she robs banks or abuses animals or anything. I know that they really want to know whether or not she cries a lot, but it always comes across like they're imposing some moral or value judgement. :-)
Another fun thing was when a friend of Aliza's grandmother, who definitely was trying to compliment RAB came out with the following:
"Kinnahora,* your child is too beautiful. A bird should crap on her head!"
I was able to stammer out some sort of a thank you. I would have gotten upset, but she seemed so genuine and complimentary about it that I let it slide.
*A contraction of the Yiddish "k'neyna hora," which more or less translates as "without giving you an evil eye." Hearing it pronounced Kinnahora makes me want to open a kosher Irish bar called Ken O'Hara's.
I'm never quite sure how to answer this one. It's not like she robs banks or abuses animals or anything. I know that they really want to know whether or not she cries a lot, but it always comes across like they're imposing some moral or value judgement. :-)
Another fun thing was when a friend of Aliza's grandmother, who definitely was trying to compliment RAB came out with the following:
"Kinnahora,* your child is too beautiful. A bird should crap on her head!"
I was able to stammer out some sort of a thank you. I would have gotten upset, but she seemed so genuine and complimentary about it that I let it slide.
*A contraction of the Yiddish "k'neyna hora," which more or less translates as "without giving you an evil eye." Hearing it pronounced Kinnahora makes me want to open a kosher Irish bar called Ken O'Hara's.