# This is what happens when daddy is left home alone with baby **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 17, 2006, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-what-happens-when-daddy-is-left-home-alone-with-baby/376844 "2006-10-17T22:18:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-what-happens-when-daddy-is-left-home-alone-with-baby/376844/21 "2006-10-18T13:52:52Z")
[QUOTE=Tikki] When I was little, I used to like to sneak the very last bit of liquid out of my Dad’s beer cans. I quit the day I took a swig and realized too late that he’d been flicking his cigarette ashes in there. ashes+warm beer=yuck! [/QUOTE] I must be a replicant, because apparently, I’ve been implanted with your childhood memories. Unless _you’re_ the replicant… ---
**Author:** ![Avarie537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/48db29/32.png) [@Avarie537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avarie537)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-what-happens-when-daddy-is-left-home-alone-with-baby/376844/22 "2006-10-18T14:12:20Z")
Heh. I’m sure my husband wishes that’s what last night would have been like! We were both gone last night, so my mom looked after Spencer for the first two hours, then Hubby came home from Tae Kwon Do. Mom stayed long enough for him to eat, then she left. Then Spencer started screaming and didn’t stop until I got home, an hour later. We’re pretty sure he was just hungry, so we’re going to work on having him drink expressed milk from a sippy cup. He doesn’t do bottles. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-what-happens-when-daddy-is-left-home-alone-with-baby/376844/23 "2006-10-18T14:54:35Z")
[QUOTE=Tikki] When I was little, I used to like to sneak the very last bit of liquid out of my Dad’s beer cans. I quit the day I took a swig and realized too late that he’d been flicking his cigarette ashes in there. ashes+warm beer=yuck! [/QUOTE] Happened to me many times, but unlike you, I didn’t learn my lesson. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-what-happens-when-daddy-is-left-home-alone-with-baby/376844/24 "2006-10-18T15:02:37Z")
AHEM. I just uploaded a bunch of pictures off the camera and found [this](http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/rhiannon_dreamsnake/detail?.dir=be22re2&.dnm=76b7re2.jpg&.src=ph) rather damning evidence of what went on at the WhyHouse last time Mom was out and Dad was in charge. [Busted!](http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/rhiannon_dreamsnake/detail?.dir=be22re2&.dnm=6b36re2.jpg&.src=ph) :dubious: 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-what-happens-when-daddy-is-left-home-alone-with-baby/376844/25 "2006-10-18T15:19:52Z")
Lemme show you what happens on a [Girls’ Night Out](http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/kavethebarbarian/detail?.dir=/86aere2&.dnm=4242re2.jpg&.src=ph). ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-what-happens-when-daddy-is-left-home-alone-with-baby/376844/26 "2006-10-18T15:29:00Z")
And women wonder why we don’t want to be left alone, not only do the babies get into everything, so do we! ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-what-happens-when-daddy-is-left-home-alone-with-baby/376844/27 "2006-10-18T15:32:19Z")
[QUOTE=Edward The Head] And now she looks like [this.](http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r59/ldrbryan/DSCN1503.jpg) [/QUOTE] Cute, but she’s going to have to learn to turn the label around if you want to go after the big money in product placement. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-what-happens-when-daddy-is-left-home-alone-with-baby/376844/28 "2006-10-18T17:57:08Z")
[QUOTE=Barbarian] Lemme show you what happens on a [Girls’ Night Out](http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/kavethebarbarian/detail?.dir=/86aere2&.dnm=4242re2.jpg&.src=ph). [/QUOTE] So is the kid _named_ “Chugchug?” ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-what-happens-when-daddy-is-left-home-alone-with-baby/376844/29 "2006-10-18T18:17:44Z")
Naw. But she could have been named [this](http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp09252006.shtml). (And forward a few comics to find out what the birth certificate _actually_ says. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-what-happens-when-daddy-is-left-home-alone-with-baby/376844/30 "2006-10-18T18:30:00Z")
I knew exactly what you linked to without even looking at the address. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2006, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-what-happens-when-daddy-is-left-home-alone-with-baby/376844/31 "2006-10-19T14:20:02Z")
[QUOTE=WhyNot] AHEM. I just uploaded a bunch of pictures off the camera and found [this](http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/rhiannon_dreamsnake/detail?.dir=be22re2&.dnm=76b7re2.jpg&.src=ph) rather damning evidence of what went on at the WhyHouse last time Mom was out and Dad was in charge. [Busted!](http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/rhiannon_dreamsnake/detail?.dir=be22re2&.dnm=6b36re2.jpg&.src=ph) :dubious: 😃 [/QUOTE] And the Dragnet theme resounds! Thank you for the new pics! ---
**Author:** ![butler1850](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@butler1850](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/butler1850)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2006, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-what-happens-when-daddy-is-left-home-alone-with-baby/376844/32 "2006-10-19T14:28:25Z")
[QUOTE=WhyNot] I gave her a fingerful of Guinness foam to scare her into submission and her eyes got all wide and happy. :smack: I’d forgotten how much babies like beer! [/QUOTE] It happens to the best of us. The Butlerette was scoping out a wheat ale homebrew of mine, and decided that it would be much better than her offering of juice, and offered to trade. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2006, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-what-happens-when-daddy-is-left-home-alone-with-baby/376844/33 "2006-10-19T16:35:12Z")
**Edward** , are you sleeping on the couch yet? ---
**Author:** ![Emilio\_Lizardo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Emilio\_Lizardo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emilio_Lizardo)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2006, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-what-happens-when-daddy-is-left-home-alone-with-baby/376844/34 "2006-10-19T17:39:46Z")
[Seems to be a phase kids go through](http://www2.physics.umd.edu/~danimal/beer/) ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2006, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-what-happens-when-daddy-is-left-home-alone-with-baby/376844/35 "2006-10-19T18:18:45Z")
[QUOTE=WhyNot] You and everyone\* else. Ok, I hereby promise to post some new ones sometime today. Scout’s honor (did I mention I was never a scout?) Check later today at www.a1.to [/QUOTE] What’s that [girl on the right](http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/rhiannon_dreamsnake/detail?.dir=be22re2&.dnm=cb9cre2.jpg&.src=ph) been drinking?? 😃 Edward, at least you didn’t send the baby out in your white elephant box. Did you?? ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2006, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-what-happens-when-daddy-is-left-home-alone-with-baby/376844/36 "2006-10-19T18:37:39Z")
[QUOTE=Emilio Lizardo] [Seems to be a phase kids go through](http://www2.physics.umd.edu/~danimal/beer/) [/QUOTE] I like the Homeless-Chic look to complete the image. ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2006, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-what-happens-when-daddy-is-left-home-alone-with-baby/376844/37 "2006-10-19T18:42:30Z")
[QUOTE=Kythereia] **Edward** , are you sleeping on the couch yet? [/QUOTE] No, I was able to sober up the baby before she got home. I’m in the clear for now. ---
**Author:** ![Emilio\_Lizardo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Emilio\_Lizardo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emilio_Lizardo)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2006, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-what-happens-when-daddy-is-left-home-alone-with-baby/376844/38 "2006-10-19T18:50:18Z")
> [@](#): > > I like the Homeless-Chic look to complete the image. It seemd appropriate. My wife thinks there’s nothing so trashy as upholstered furniture on the front porch. I should fess up that that pic is almost 2 years old now. But since he’s in the “insists on dressing himself” stage, he still looks homeless a lot of the time. ---
**Author:** ![HubZilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ccd318/32.png) [@HubZilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HubZilla)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2006, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-what-happens-when-daddy-is-left-home-alone-with-baby/376844/39 "2006-10-19T19:12:38Z")
Another bad daddy checking in. [She wanted something cold](http://www.dulcemichaelanya.com/100_7507-iC.jpg) (9 months old) [Know when to say when](http://www.dulcemichaelanya.com/100_7511-iC.jpg) (9 months) [This is not cool, mmmkay?](http://www.dulcemichaelanya.com/sieg%20heil.jpg) (8 months) [What is Daddy teaching me?](http://www.dulcemichaelanya.com/100_3489.jpg) (5 months) [She’ll disown Daddy over this pic](http://www.dulcemichaelanya.com/AnyaFMisch.jpg) (2 months) [What did we say about playing with knives?](http://www.dulcemichaelanya.com/anya_kaos.jpg) (10 months) (the only photoshopped one) (From my baby Anya’s [web page](http://www.dulcemichaelanya.com/anya.htm)) ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2006, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-what-happens-when-daddy-is-left-home-alone-with-baby/376844/40 "2006-10-20T02:14:19Z")
Hmph. Cans? Of Bud? At least _our_ babies drink imported beer out of bottles. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-what-happens-when-daddy-is-left-home-alone-with-baby/376844.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-what-happens-when-daddy-is-left-home-alone-with-baby/376844.md?page=3)