ಠ_ಠ This is a Thing People Do? I’ve never encountered or heard of an adult that talked in baby talk to anybody but small children and animals.
My boss at the last job used to answer the phone in a breathless newly wed 1950’s housewife sing song tone. It was always like “oooh, please I am so happy to talk to you I am such a lonely bored homebody.”
Except she wasn’t. She was a clinic manager, a Registered Nurse, and an adult woman. It drove me nuts, because she wasn’t like that in person. Just on the phone.
OK sure, but…
Hot? Is she?
A co-worker does this. I hate it so much that I just want to punch her in her face.
What ever happened to, “Joe’s bar, who ya want?”
You’re lucky. My first encounter was with a woman who, I swear before Og,I honestly believed had a legitimate speech impediment. She tawked wike dis and had kind of a line down the middle of her upper lip, so I assumed she’d had a harelip +/- cleft palate fixed, and the scar and speech defects were from that. Da wisp was wookin’ ma newves, but you have to ovahwook tings peepuh can’t hewp.
Except that a couple of hours later all the guys left and it was just us women, and all of a sudden she sounded like fucking Rex Harrison. She continued to enunciate like a voice coach until we encountered another guy, when she immediately lost all ability to pronounce r’s and l’s and developed a serious pout/duck face. The only thing I can figure is she thought men found that sort of bullshit attractive.
But anyway… this girl… is she hot?
Second.
…Second.
Uh. Weird.
If she talks to you that way, I’d say “Listen, I’m not a kewt widdle kitteh, and you’re not a six year old Shirley Temple. Why are you talking like that?”
If she responds in the same tone, she is likely a psychopath, and you’d best stay away from her. If she breaks character and speaks normally, the jig is up and she’ll either speak normal around you when possible, or get pissed that you’ve ruined the illusion.
The best way to ensure she keeps talking like that though, is to just let it slide like 99% of everyone else has been doing. Yeah, she’s not being rude or anything one could realistically get real indignant about, but come on. There’s nothing in the rule books that says it’s cool to be an annoyance to others if it’s a voluntary and childish way of doing things.
I was just wondering if this lady was… hot?
And single?
Or just hot?
Guys, seriously - you could stand a woman talking to you in a baby talk voice in the office if she’s hot?
Yep. I try not to let little things get to me.
All the time? No. Every once in while would be okay. If she’s hot.
The lady in question is about 62 and weighs about 200 pounds and wears old-fashioned winged eyeglasses and lavender polyester pantsuits.
Yeah, but you didn’t tell them - is she hot or not?
(ducks)
Within 5, how many cats does she own?
She escaped from The Far Side?
Only if she also used that voice while being bounced off the copy machine during breaks…
And was HOT.
Hot covers many sins…tis the unfortunate truth of the world we live in.
Not this guy. Nobody’s that hot.