28 Oct 2014 =========== A fat ass scared my baby. (self.TalesofFatHate) submitted 1 day ago by amarettosweet I was at Safeway (grocery store) in the self checkout lane scanning my groceries. I had my two children with me. My daughter is five and my son is 20 months old. He's a baby. Neither of them like strangers. Anyway, my son is sitting in the front of the cart facing away from the ham beast that monitors the self checkout lanes. He's just sitting there, being a happy little baby watching mommy scan the groceries. Out of nowhere the fat ass employee leaves her monitoring spot, walks up behind my baby, and loudly says "boo!" WTF! Who in their right mind thinks it's a good idea to scare a baby!?! He cried. She acted surprised that he cried. Fucking stupid bitch planet. Of course he cried. He's a baby. He doesn't like strangers and I'm pretty sure he's mommy's tiny shitlord in training. This was 13 hours ago and I'm still furious. I want to call the manager and complain. It even upset my five year old. She is very protective of her baby brother. ----- [lots of outrage over the cashier scaring the baby] --- RainbowRaider _, do planets not understand how humans socially interact with each other? Let me give them a simple guide that even socially-anxious me follows for kids: 1. If you make eye contact, you smile 2. If they wave, wave the fuck back Done. That's it. I guess hams really are subhuman. --- irbos 20 months old Honest question about this because I've always been curious. To me, this is "almost 2," but parents are always using "18 weeks" or "20 months" to describe child age. Why is that? [same here, always wondered that. there's a joke about referring to whiny 13 year olds as "156+ months old".] --- crimson_catrina I don't have kids, but I think it's because when the kid is under 2 or so, those few months make a bigger difference. A kid who just turned 1 is a lot different than a kid who's almost 2, in terms of development. Just turned 1 is still a helpless infant for the most part, while almost 2 is walking, talking, and a lot further along. So saying "13 months" versus "20 months" gives a more specific idea of where the kid is at. [ah. still odd to hear toddlers be called "28 months old", though.] --- amarettosweet[S] U/crimson_catrina is right on. Once my children are 2 years old then I just go by the year number. === rcv jan 2021