Monday, June 8, 2009

People Are Weird


A few days ago, I had another Mama Bear Moment. I walked into my friend Shanel's salon, carrying the punk in his baby carrier with a blanket over the top because I was hoping that he would stay asleep for the duration of my hair appointment. As I walked in the door, I passed a lady who looked like a wet cat. Small frame, big eyes, and with hair and skin the same color yellow. She immediately turned to me and said, "Make sure to give that baby some air! That's a heavy blanket." It's a good thing I hadn't followed through with my original plan of covering the carrier in plastic wrap!

I sat down to wait for Shanel, and Cat Lady sat down in the chair right next to me. I had only had time to blink when suddenly, she was reaching her paw out to lift the blanket. I almost slapped her hand away, but instead, I said, "He's taking a nap, and I'd like him to stay asleep." She looked as if I HAD slapped her, but I didn't care. I could even hear him making waking sounds, and feel his little feet start to kick, but I wasn't about to lift the blanket now and subject my little guy to Cat Lady. She would probably want to hold him and nurse him and take him to live with her in a van down by the river. So I rocked the still-covered baby seat while she babbled unceasingly until Shanel was ready for me.

She asked me how old he was, his name, where I grew up, where my husband grew up, how long we had been married ("Oh, you waited 6 years to have a baby?"), if we had traveled before having the baby, and how we had met. When I told her we had met on a blind date, she proceeded to tell me about the "50 couples" she had set up on successful blind dates and her theory that sometimes couples are destined to meet by the hand of someone else. By the time Shanel had finished her previous appointment, which only took about 3 1/2 minutes, Cat Lady was jabbering on about how Scotland and Ireland are her favorite European countries because she owns the keys to several castles where she can talk to ghosts.

6 comments:

Like sisters musings about life... said...

lol funny, I was about to blog about my wierd hair appointment when I read yours ...lol my wierd lady smacked my new born on the head and walked off....I am not lying it happened! Poor ladybug started crying harder than I have ever heard her cry....turns out the lady is well known at the salon, because last year she ran into the building with her car...hmmmmmm.

Meili said...

Whaaa? So weird! Salons are dangerous places!

Diane said...

And Shanel works there every day? We have got to get her out of there for the safety of everyone!

Christa said...

Don't you just love how everyone has "good advice" for you now that you have a baby?

Your running post inspired me, but now I'm going to need a double jogging stroller! Gotta love KSL

Morgan Family said...

OH MY!!!!!!!!! Too funny! I have had several of those kinds of experiences... Why don't people mind their own business? Who knows their kids better than the Moms?!

Lyndsie said...

What an exciting day. Maybe if you had talked to her a little longer, she would have let you borrow the keys to her castle?

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