A baby, a mother, a home-owner and clash of priorities
Character : Beth, early fifties, female.
Beth : Did you see that? She said her baby is cute. Her baby smiles when she touches the baby. Everybody has babies. What is so special about her baby? All babies are the same. She looks like that and her husband has a laborer’s look. How beautiful can the child be?
I am so glad she left so soon. Did you notice her child wasn’t wearing diapers? If she had soiled my brand new sofa, my husband would scold me. Some more she lets her child down on the carpet. I vacuum my carpet every day. She could have bottle-fed her baby but she said she wanted to ‘train’ the baby to eat from a spoon. My floor 
. My clean floor. I am so glad she has left. Some more she makes all those coo coo sounds like she is communicating with her child. What child can understand language at such an early age? The lazy mother just wants to enjoy my home.
I was present during this visit by a mother and a child to a home. I dropped in at the latter end of the visit. I had no idea at all of the under-currents. Beth was carrying the child, making a big deal of the child: bringing toys, making faces at the baby until the child laughed. I thought Beth was captivated by the child.
Sometimes, people wear different ‘faces’ for different occasions. We have to be sensitive to the moods of others. I am sure if the mother had known, she wouldn’t have dropped in on Beth. She had nothing to gain. The visit was based on friendship. The mother is from the country side while Beth is a town kind of person.
Pic borrowed from :
http://www.chinaeconomicreview.com/quirkies/category/naming-children/
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hi bengbeng, is beth childless? if so, that would explain it.
how u guess? yes, is true
I was going to visit Beth this weekend….with my pet cow. I wonder if she would mind?
She won’t mind. Last week I took my water buffalo. It ate her curtains, but she did not seem to get upset.
- FF
I would guess, Beth is not only childless but also single. They are usually like that: Clean, meticulous, and likes everything in it’s place. Luckily it’s just one baby. I imagine if she met my 3 kids, she’ll probably have a heart attack! LOL! Anyway, every baby is the most beautiful, most cleaver and most adorable to its mother even if it looks like a cow!
If she had kids she would not have a spotless house and she would be used to the mess, thats why.
I am single, childless, and old… some people would label me a spinster, I suppose.
While I have no qualms saying I do not feel comfortable being in a filthy environment, I most certainly do not live in a spotless house, do not mind snotty kids, (I do mind snotty (and snooty) adults, though).
Ocassionally, my house looks like a hurricane (aka ‘lazyitis’ struck). Once in a blue moon, it is actually squeeky, spanking clean. Those times, (like once a year, lah) I positively *beam* with pride that I have managed to overcome my terrible laziness. Most times, it’s sort of in-between messy and cluttered but clean.
Please, all adults, irrespective of age or gender or marital status (yes, even mothers with kids)as examples to young children PLEASE, PLEASE DO NOT STEREOTYPE other people.
To my mind, that sort of mindset is not much better than being Beth who happens to be single (is that a character flaw?), childless (is that a so disease?) woman who has her priorities wrong (a flaw yes, but aren’t we all imperfect in at least one way?)
Stereotyping is a kind of discrimination, not unlike racism
**end rant**
apologies to Beng2 I do agree her priorities a bit off, but….yes, people have different “faces”
Thanks Cassie for your reply. It is good enough to be a post. Would you like to be a guest writer occasionally?
( Not kidding. U write well )
after you left Beth she told me all the bad things about Bengbeng!
nobody has anything nice to say abt bengbeng
ever
beng-beng,
Haha… sure or not? Single, childless… you know lah!