I think we all kind of understand the tendency of cats to lock onto and spend the whole night rubbing on that one person in the room who has a deathly feline dandruff allergy. That's what cats do. They find the person who doesn't want anything to do with them, and they express their love only for that person.

Children are my cats.

Disclaimer: I love children. I think they are wonderful. But, I have no urge to have children, personally, AND being around them makes me kind of nervous, for some reason.

They realize this and run, full speed, towards my unwanting arms.

Yesterday, there was a local fireworks show in my hometown, and I was up there for the weekend, anyway, because SURPRISE I'm turning 21 on Tuesday. So, I decided to go with my friend Meagan and her family (I asked my mum to come, but she didn't want to)--and Meagan has two younger sisters, but the older of the two has met me, and the younger I assumed, correctly, would be shy.

The problem was the friend. Meagan's sister was sitting in her lap, so her sister's friend comes waddling over, assesses the situation, and then decides to plop down into my lap like it's casual freaking Friday, and I freeze and look at Meagan with an expression that roughly read, "WHAT. HOW. WHY. WHAT."

So I'm about to be like, Yoooo where is your mommy and daddy, when the punk turns around and goes, "You're pretty."


Fast forward fifteen minutes, I'm explaining why the moon matters to us to a complacent little girl in my lap. I'm trying to keep it simple. "You know at the ocean, how the tide goes in and out?"

"Yeah."

"The moon makes it do that."

"Oh. That firework was really close to the moon. I hope it doesn't blow it up."

"The moon's pretty tough, I think it will be okay."

BUT IN THE MEANTIME CAN YOU NOT?

The parents came and found her, after enjoying the fireworks show--they didn't care. I didn't really think it was that bizarre, either, but that's mostly because of the constant stream of babysitting job offers I get from total strangers. I'm not kidding about the cat thing.

Something about me and kids, man. They know.


So that's your fun fact for the 21st of April.

Maybe you just have a friendly/attractive face. I think kids are more drawn to people who are good looking? Or well, people are in general drawn to people who are good looking.
» randomjunk on 2013-04-21 11:24:27

Usually I feel okay about kids, mostly because I haven't had to interact with them very much on the whole. And it's different with my nephew because I've known him from the word go and he's the greatest kid ever. So, uh...

A friend of mine asked if I could help her out and take over her nursery job at her cousin's church after she leaves in the summer. I said I'd give it a shot and shadow her one day. That day was today. And I really want to help, but I'm also super anxious about having to take care of potential screamers for an hour and a half. :S
I'm not sure what I'll do yet.
» invisible on 2013-04-29 12:30:02

Also, I just realized that many of my comments on your posts feel like mini blog entries.
» invisible on 2013-04-29 12:30:49

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