4 posts tagged “children”
There is a little boy in my building who knocks on my door all. day. long. He's been yelling my name outside my door for the last hour.
It started at the end of last week. He's really adorable and friendly and precocious so it breaks my heart to not let him in, but I honestly can't have a child in my apartment when I'm working during the day. Between the chain smoking, the TV-14 rated shows being watched, the great deal of attention I need to pay to what I'm doing... all of these are reasons I can't have a child under five around me during the day.
I think he stays home with his dad/mom's boyfriend during the day, which is an awful lot like my situation growing up, so it's that much harder to turn him away... but you guys. It's constant. Not to mention it upsets Wagandstuff to hear someone dancing outside our door, so my options are this: invite a little boy into my apartment or have a chihuahua barking in my ear all day. I've tried to explain to him that I work from home, I've tried to tell him he can come and hang out with me after 7 PM, I've told him I feel really bad about not letting him hang out with me... but he just wants to chill.
I don't know what to do. I guess I could say something to his mom or the landlord, but I really don't feel like it's my place.
There are some children screaming outside my window and I can't tell if it's "OMG! I'm having so much fun!" screaming or "Oh fuck, why is this man abducting me?!" screaming. I'm going to pretend it's the first one because I can't stop working to go deal with children being abducted.
This is what makes me different than the Scientologists, apparently.
Here's a sweet mash-up I was just listening to:
On an unrelated note, I was thinking about how much I can't stand scatological humor today and how often I am disappointed to hear adults rely on it like school children. It's childish, and not in a fun way, like Rainbow Bright and sticker collections. In a bad way, like peer-pressure and most of my ex-boyfriends.
I realize that it's completely ridiculous to be more offended by a fart joke than say, something about some drunk college slut's mutilated vagina, but HEY-- that's just how I am.
