{"id":2025,"date":"2006-11-08T08:52:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-08T14:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/?p=2025"},"modified":"2006-11-08T08:52:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-08T14:52:00","slug":"silly-parenting-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/08\/silly-parenting-mistake\/","title":{"rendered":"Silly parenting mistake"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, shimmeringjemmy<\/a> asked me to “throw a blanket in her direction.”<\/p>\n

One line and a digression:
\nFor those who haven’t had a baby, the baby blanket is akin to the hitchhiker’s towel or the sonic screwdriver. It is the closest thing that we as humans have to deus ex machina in the non-fictional world.<\/p>\n

I tossed the blanket across the room with the verve of a down-field, hail-mary. A slender female arm shot up and snatched the towel mid course, reminding me momentarily of the tribulations my football team is going through. Ironically I thought to myself and voiced, “Sorry, that was a bit hard, perhaps a shovel pass would have been better.”<\/p>\n

She looked at me and smiled, “No, it’d seem my reflexes have really improved.”<\/p>\n

This was obvious to me; but for some asinine reason, I felt the need to demonstrate it.<\/p>\n

I sat down next to her and said, “of course your reflexes have improved. Let me demonstrate.” I looked at her for a moment or two. She looked down at aiden_freeman<\/a>, then looked back at me. I sat one moment longer and then started to waver and lean forward as if my balance had given out and I was going to slump to one side.<\/p>\n

The well tooled female arm shout out to catch me from falling over. It moved with machine speed and precision. Unfortunately, the machine had not been calibrated for a body over 25″ As her left fist connected with my jaw in the vain hopes to lead the cradling arm to wrap itself around my non-infant back; the concussive force extended my theory of parental reflexes.<\/p>\n

Short translation: I was laughing too hard through the pain and shimmeringjemmy<\/a>‘s apologies.<\/p>\n

Here endeth the science lesson.<\/p>\n

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