I donno. I guess to each their own, but the question about being a “good baby” has never bothered me.
Many people get really tired of hearing new parents talk about their babies or kids, so I generally don’t bring them into the conversation unless asked about it.
This. It seems to work with all types of parents. They will either take the opportunity to gush about how they have the greatest baby ever, or use it to gain sympathy for having a devil spawn. I have asked the question before (at least a form of it) just to open up a conversation.
A pair of 17-ish twins work at our local grocery store. Everybody in the store has a name tag with their real first name & a silly nickname given by their peers. Their nicknames are “Good” and “Evil”. You’d only have to talk to each of them for a couple minutes to understand & agree.
Good as in: does he not cry all night, every night. As in, does he sleep well, etc… Are these really stupid questions? Do you think the asker means, “Is he good morally, or do you think he will likely become a mass murderer?”
This reminds me of a DUMB QUESTION I was asked at a hearing held by the board of an apartment building where I used to live. Our neighbor hauled us into their “kangaroo court” on the grounds that my dog’s barking was disturbing her. We have two dogs. The Board Member asked me: “Which one of your dogs barks?” I said “All dogs bark.” So he said, which one is she complaining about? I said, “I don’t know, you’d have to ask her.” So he followed up again with, "But which one of your dogs barks. So I said, again “All dogs bark.” They said she had a tape recording of my dogs barking, but for some IDIOTIC reason, this “evidence” was not presented to us. So I explained that first of all, this heresay evidence:
a) may not exist, because you’re not playing it here for us to hear
b) may in fact be any dogs barking, perhaps taped off of the complainant’s tv
c) may even be my dogs. However, if somebody is out in the hallway messing around with a tape recorder, just about any dog is going to be prompted to bark.
I picked up a hitchhiker awhile back,he looked at my digital clock/radio display and asked “Is that the right time?” I said “Yes,its 10:73”.Course he was drunk,but I got a laugh out of it.
I was listening to 107.3