28 August - Small Kiddies & Happy Meals

If you’re staying over at friends who have small children and infants… don’t forget to take ear plugs. And if your friends don’t have a spare room to put you up in, just don’t go. It’s your w/end too. Then when you wake up and are asked to play or take them out to bond etc. , remember to remove your watch so you don’t look at it a million times. There’s a chance the older kid at least will tell the parents and you’re stuffed. I even lied about what time my train left so I could be left at station earlier to read my book/paper! Earlier at the shops earlier with the 4 and 7 years old , the 4 year old called my name a million times, to look at stuff etc and I'm like ‘Baby girl? I I heard you the first time and I turn to you the first time you holler , no need to repeat my name 5 times’. Still, this must be how Paris Hilton feels when she leaves the hotel and the paps are in waiting. Thank god no hidden cameras to show my lack of interpersonal skills with kiddies.
The visit to Macdonalds was also enlightening (yes folks, I had established with parents that no previous visit had taken place within a month at least so my conscience was assuaged) as I discovered that happy meals are cheap as chips, literally less than the price of some handcut fries in a gastropub. People can eat for next to no money. Wow. The happy meals even included annoying toys that sang endlessly ‘I like to move it, move it’. And I had that in stereo. I was informed that this ditty appears on the OST of Madagascar, which of course I only know as a large island where I nearly went back in June. In comparison the infant was a doddle, she's just so cute and just needs to touch your red toenails to be happy. The game is of course extra simple. Retract foot, or offer foot to her touch. Easy.