I didn't get the memo!

Apparently, it's national "Bring your infant to work" day and no one told me. Not that I have an infant, but I could have borrowed one maybe. So I arrived to work to find that my cubicle had been transformed into a nursery. My desk was covered with small children and their accouterments. Bottles, diaper bags, those little seat things you carry babies around in, all used up every available inch of space on my desk. These particular children were the recently manufactured twins of my co-worker, Sammy. Henceforth they will be referred to as "Sammy Spawn". I advised that the Sammy Spawn should be removed from my cubicle, not because I discriminate based on age, but because I've been battling a particularly resilient cold and I didn't want to be guilty of unintentional infanticide via microbial infection. Everyone assumed I was just being all "bah humbug", biased by the recent christmas music episode (See Dec 5th entry). So, the kids were not kept at minimum safe distance. I just hope their newly created immune systems are able to withstand this particular viral infection better than, say, a full grown adult who recently recovered from only the third illness to befall him in the past 21 years. But who's counting? If Sammy had expressed concern for the health of his twin Spawn, I was ready to reassure him that he does have a spare, but these appear to be the latest model, and are notoriously difficult to replace. Babies, I've been told, prefer the term "People of recent creation".

So, as I had inferred earlier, I'm not a baby hater. I must confess, however, to being annoyed by adults when there are babies around. Normally competent, tolerable co-workers become cooing, blubbering imbeciles as soon as somebody whips out a human larva. All you can hear is "blah, blah, blah, cute!, blah, blah, cute!, blah, blah, blah, blah, so cute!, blah blah". I guess it didn't really bother me as much as amuse me. I guess I'm weird that way.  We had recently conversed at work about the world's oldest people, and how amazing it was to live a life that spans 3 different centruries, but today reminded me that everyone, if only for a few nanoseconds, gets to be the world's youngest person.