The Peanut Chronicles

Thursday, March 30, 2006

Correct me if I am wrong....

A four week old baby needs a baby sitter so that his mom can work on her thesis. She needs about an hour or two, just to get uninterrupted work done. She sends out an email to various friends, godparents and even the dreaded grandfather. The grandfather returns the email saying he and his wife (who is not considered any part of the family by Baby's mom and dad for amny MANY reasons) would love to babysit and "what time on Thursdays" and "can you bring the Baby to us?"

Now, mom, thinking logically, ponders this question. The first main objective is the immense dislike for Grandfather's wife. No way in hell, thinks mom, that the baby will EVER consider this THING his Grandmother (Grandmother is dead. Case closed.) Second, Dad doesn't really like or fee comfortable around this woman either, since she tried hijacking the wedding as the "mother of the bride".

Next, by the time the Mom gets home from work, loads the baby into the car with diaper bag, toys, stroller, and anything else that might be needed, it will be rush hour on one of the most congested hiways in Northern California. The 25 minute drive will be about 35-50 minutes.

Furthermore, the Grandfather's house has no baby proofing or any baby supplies, hence more packing would be needed by the already stressed Mom.

finally, by the time the mom gets home to work on her thesis, it will be over an hour since she originally left her house. Soon after arriving, she'll have to turn around and go get the baby from the grandfather's house.

All this is quite logical to the mom. Why doesn't the grandfather, who is semi-retired, meet the mom at her house and stay there with the baby? That way, if anything is needed, mom is there, JUST IN CASE, to help out. Mom can offer lots of movie entertainments, food and books. Besides, mostly the baby just sleeps. This seems logical, does it not?

Mom emails the Grandfather, politely laying out these items that were debated over and analyzed. Mind you, Mom and Grandfather don't really get along that well, but still , the baby would probably want to hang out with at least one grandparent and now is the chance for the grandfather to redeem himself.

Alas, all this l ogic is lost on the Grandfather as his response to the email is "I am not willing to go to your house. What time can you or Dad bring Baby here?"

un-fucking-believable.

I guess I can sum it up as "grandfather's loss."