The girlfriend and the "Unmotherly Mother"

[Buford]

I finally got to see some decent sneezes after a long time of absolutely nothing to report.

I was going to have dinner with my parents. Nothing quite unusual on the way there until my sneezing radar went on. A young couple were walking toward us. I barely even noticed the guy (I think he was, I dunno...tall?) but I did manage to capture the image of the girl. A petite thin brunette with an obvious urge of sneezing. She let out a powerful and uncovered "ASHOO!" that bent double her little body, but still holding her boyfriend's hand. My mother was disgusted, "How rude!" she said. I couldn't elaborate a more complex answer other than a primal "Uh-huh" , fascinated by the intensity of that beautiful sneeze.

We arrived to the restaurant. I was eating my octopuss when a family sat in the front table. A couple of with two little toddlers. The mother was in her 30's, tall, tanned and gorgeous, who let out two lovely "Heshiew! HESHOO!" out of nowhere. She barely covered her mouth with her fist, so most of the sneezes landed on her little child's face. No more sneezes from her, but she kept coughing and sniffling, as she had a cold. Then she drank of her son juice bottle, aparently "showing him" how to drink properly. I don't know about you, but I wouldn't expose my son to my germs like that! I don't understand these new age mothers... Although it could've been just allergies, but that would ruin my lecture about hygiene.

That'd be all for now, toodle-oo!

[Chanel_no5]

I've seen lots of mothers behaving like that... my own did so too. It's like their children aren't viewed as own persons, but simply a prolongation of the mother's ego. It disgusts me.

(disclaimer; I'm not saying all mothers are like that, but I'm saying that I've experienced a mother who's that way, and I've seen LOTS of mothers behaving like this, especially in the past few years).

Otherwise, the observations were lovely!

Edited June 13, 2011 by Chanel_no5

[Quills & Wells]

I would never spread germs to children like that. That's just so wrong! It infuriates me every time I see a situation like that, and it is becoming commonplace. ugh

Aside from that, great obs

[The Sneezster]

It is wrong and deplorable and I'd never do something so inconsiderate, but the sick fetishy part of me finds someone with so little regard for contagion to be outrageously sexy.

[Vetinari]

Nice obesrvations Buford.

I find it odd that everyone is so horrified with the mother, and not commenting at all on the woman who sneezed uncovered in an eating place. I would never do the former, but sneezing into a fist with my children? Well quite possibly. For the past 14 years or so, I've had almost no colds that my children didn't bring home to me. When the children were toddlers, and were both in nursery we had about 20 weeks a year of it (them having colds, not me), and moreover whether I had a cold or not, they liked to be cuddled closely and had to hold my hand when out, even if I was having to blow my nose every two minutes. At some point I think I stopped worrying too much about giving them germs. With something more serious, yes ... but a cold which I probably got from them anyway? *shrug*

[Chanel_no5]

For the past 14 years or so, I've had almost no colds that my children didn't bring home to me.

Which is yet another reason to why I'm never going to have babies.

But yeah. I can just tell that even from a very young age, I hated germs, I was trying not to infect others and I hated it when my parents had colds. Already at the age of about four or so, I recoiled from people with colds. Did anyone respect that? Nope. Absolutely not my mother. She's more likely to try and infect as many people as she possibly can whenever she has a cold, which probably is one of the reasons I simply cannot stand cold sneezing today.

Okay, I'm gonna stop my excessive threadjacking now.

[Buford]

I would never spread germs to children like that. That's just so wrong! It infuriates me every time I see a situation like that, and it is becoming commonplace. ugh

Aside from that, great obs

True. But... on a second thought, I would certainly sacrifice the health of people to get some juicy obs... Just sayin'

Also, about mothers... wait, what is this? Poster?

Buford is someone at last! Forget about moms, to the profile-editing cave!

Many thanks!

[Natto]

I really don't think it's THAT bad that the mother is doing this. First of all, the only way to avoid spreading it altogether is to not spend any time with her kids, which would be way harder on them then having a cold. Secondly, it could be that the kid had the cold first and is therefore not going to catch it again. Third, little kids NEED to have mild illnesses in order to train their immune systems. If it's something really serious, or if the child is less than three or four months old, then she should be taking pains to avoid infecting them, but in this case, I really don't think so.