The Absence of a Mind and Body

Have you ever been sitting in a public place and all of a sudden you are rudely disturbed by the outburst of a crying baby? Most have, and find it annoying. Me? I find it incredibly annoying. What causes this rudeness? It is my theory that when women give birth there some mutation of the brain in three out of five mothers that causes them to haphazardly lose there sense of manners.

Let me give you an example. It was a Sunday morning during church, when the sound of an infant sitting behind me suddenly sounded. After about twenty seconds of this I became quickly irritated with the unruly mother of this child. How could she sit there knowing that two hundred other people had to listen to it? When you thought things couldn’t get worse, the sound of a thick southern accent whispered through the screaming. “Shhh! Quiet.” it said “You’re bothering people.” Wearing my “I-am-so-disgusted-with-you” face, I quickly took a look behind me, trying to communicate the need for this person to remove there child.  Sitting with a baby on her lap was a mother telling her infant to be quiet? I was dumbfounded at this new approach of parenting. The sarcastic side in me felt the need to ask her if it was working, but I was afraid she’d tell me to stop “bothering people”.

Another time a mother started changing her baby right in the middle of a hallway. As if that wasn’t enough asked me, a total stranger, to throw away the diaper? Am I its keeper? I don’t ask you to throw away my trash, why should I toss your kids diaper away? Can’t you ask Junior over here to do it for you? Since he can comprehend “be quiet” and all.

Those were just a few examples of mothers that I have experienced. The injustices come in all sorts of forms every day. Unfortunately, there is no non awkward polite way of getting my message across, and since we don’t fully understand what causes this absence of common sense, we don’t have a sure fire answer. The only thing I can do now is practice my “I-am-so-disgusted-with-you” faces and hope for the best.