Oblivious to the irony

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I took Sophia to a science-y indoor children’s play place a couple weeks ago. She had fun playing in the water area. I sat on a nearby bench for a while but she retrieved me after few minutes. She was unable to navigate around the adults milling about and micromanaging their children’s play. One parent kept telling their eighteen month old to not splash the water despite his wearing the provided waterproof smock and the floor being designed for water to drain underneath. *gratuitous eye roll*

I helped my invisible toddler around the adults so that she could play where she wanted. There were a couple other toddlers near her and their parents, a couple feet from me, were watching them. One mother observed how their two toddlers seemed oblivious of the kids around them and kept bumping into everyone to get the toys they wanted. She made the general sweeping remark, “Isn’t it funny how kids don’t seem to notice anyone else around them?” My kid doesn’t seem to have that problem, but whatever.

Sophia wanted to go to the other side of that area and tried to get around sweeping-generalizations-woman who was standing right in the middle. Sophia tried to go around the front of her, but the woman shifted her weight thereby blocking the path. Sophia went around the other side of the woman, and she almost made it. Not two minutes after her observation of toddlers, the woman sidestepped right into Sophia. Sophia didn’t fall, just stumbled, but the woman was completely oblivious. It seems to be a hereditary gene.

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13 thoughts on “Oblivious to the irony”

  1. Sounds like the people at Wal-Mart. They stand in the middle of the isle and when you try and get around them or say excuse me they look at you like you just killed their puppy. I’ve stopped saying excuse me… I just hit them with my cart, and then I give an apology dripping with sarcasm.
    .-= Mr. O´s last blog ..Your name is… =-.

    • Susan Anderson – Yeah sometimes I just can’t stand it. People go to these places full of and even meant for toddlers yet they just don’t see them. Well, except for their own darling of course.

    • brian miller – I spend about half the time on the equipment with her and the other half standing on the side just observing. My goal is for Sophia to be able to figure some things out on her own and not *need* me right there.

  5. Just wrote this comment on my blog but I wanted to make sure you saw it :P

    Erica -I was thinking of you specifically when I wrote, “If they gave in other ways I could forgive them, but to not give at all is a sin to me”, because I remembered how you said you gave to that organization. I even remembered how you said that you donate food that people will like to eat because Kurt would tell you about his experiences. Yes, I am a bleeding heart :P However, I make life better just by being around. *looking around…why isn’t anyone agreeing with me?* LOL

    So, I forgive you. *running away real fast* hehehe

    • Susan Anderson – OH ouch! LOL ;-) Actually I did read the comment on your blog before I even saw this one. And today I thought about you as I came up on a person with a sign. I had change in my cup holder and really thought about give it, but then the light turned green and I had to move along.

      Before your post I was coming across people on Facebook affiliated with pages/groups titled, “Why Don’t They Drug Test Welfare Recipients?”, or some variation of that theme. It made me mad that people could be so cold. As far as I know welfare doesn’t translate to cold hard cash. As far as I know it’s food stamps. Sure someone could sell their food stamps on the street for drugs, but in general it’s for FOOD. Since I can get angry about that I guess it doesn’t really matter if I give someone money directly, but still, still I feel more comfortable giving to a charity.