This past week I saw a sad sight. No, it wasn’t Eric Holder trying to convince us
that he’s now a terror exposing hero instead of the perpetrator of a deadly Mexican
gunrunning op that had its sights set on ultimately getting our Second Amendment
rights revoked—though that was pretty sad, as that dog wag had all the subtleties of
a Chaz Bono rumba.
What eclipsed that miserable moment (sorta) and caused me grief this week was
watching a young mom at Starbucks ignoring her beautiful, little one-year-old girl
while said moron giggled and texted for 30 plus minutes.
Yep, with her head buried in the phone, nose two inches off the cancer screen,
mommy dearest didn’t have a clue what her kid was doing as she crawled around on
a high traffic, grime-laden cement floor between the feet of strangers who held 16-
ounce cups of 180 degree liquid above the kid’s tender flesh as they high stepped
over her.
Hey, parents, here’s a freebie from Dr. Doug: Why not put the cell phone and gadgets
down for awhile when your babies are around and pay attention to them, all right,
jackass? There’ll be plenty of time later in life to ignore them—like in college, when
they pierce their nipples and become whiny liberal drips, but now, when they are
very young, is not the time.
FYI to Y-O-U, mom … dad: You’ve got one shot at raising that baby, and if you want
to make certain your spawn doesn’t:
1. Recite hate poems about you at Barnes & Noble’s open mic night regarding
how they’d like to stab you in your sleep for ignoring them for the last sixteen
years.
2. Show up high as a kite at a NYC Flea Party Rally, bitching and moaning about
hard work and shouting up Che Guevara’s weltanschauung as they roast a
fatty …
… then you might wanna give junior some TLC while he’s a T-O-T. You dig?
As I watched this neglect go down at Starbucks, I kept thinking that this daft dame
could have cooed and cuddled with her little bambina and had 1,800 seconds of
parental bliss that lovely morning.
The Starbucks I visited was on beautiful Miami Beach. Mom could have pointed out
to baby the seagulls, the palm trees, the gorgeous skies, the warm sun, the six-foot
three-inch trannie with a five o’clock shadow, the rats rummaging through the trash eating discarded ham and cheese paninis, and the ubiquitous metrosexuals with
over-tweaked eyebrows who use seven words to order their special cup of Joe. It
could’ve been both a bonding and educational familial exchange in one warm whack.
But no. The bird had to text.