This is a short tale, but I nearly laughed hard enough to spit my drink out when it happened.
When I first moved to Seattle, I didn't have a car, so if I couldn't get a ride from a friend, I had to ride the bus. One day, I noticed a woman about 24 years of age, with her son in her lap.
She was staring out the window, contemplating life, and looked down to notice that her son was sucking his thumb. She scolded him for it, and hit his hand out of his mouth. A little harsh, but hey, I'm not going to tell her how to be a parent.
As she was staring out the window, her own hand started creeping upward, and her thumb seemed to make it into her mouth.
The little boy, saw this, and hit her hand. Poetic justice, I thought.
But, it doesn't end there.
I was on this bus for about 30 minutes, and every 5 minutes or so, one of the pair would smack the others hand out of their mouth because they were sucking their thumb. What I found particularly funny was that the mother didn't realize what was going on. She just thought that her son was acting out, and hitting her because she hit him.
Like I said, this happened every five minutes or so for over half an hour. Nothing quite like chastising your child for doing the same thing you are...
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