#195 Unwanted touching and comments

a) Random woman pats my 6-week-old baby’s head while she’s sleeping on me in the sling.

b) Random man-woman (can’t tell which) walks by and pats my 5-year-old’s head while he’s having a major tantrum in the shopping mall.

c) Old-lady saleswoman asks if the sling is wrapped around my baby too tight.

“She’s fine,” I reply through gritted teeth with my heaviest American accent.

d) Saleswoman who’s obviously younger than me and probably has no kids comments on my baby’s thin hair (?!).

“She’s only 6 weeks old,” I reply.

“Oh. You didn’t shave her head at one month?*” she asks.

“No.”

End. Of. Story.

*Chinese custom.

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