Otherwise known (starting now) as "solar rectum syndrome". I was reading this article somewhere, see, about some woman with a little kid, otherwise known as a "baby" and she mentioned that she tried to... not to make it behave, as you can't make a baby behave, but tried to time said baby's feeding times and sleep patterns to her restaurant visits, such that said "baby" would not disrupt the dining experience of other diners. And she mentioned that other mothers -- especially, in her view, mothers having their first kids over forty (mothers' age, not kids' -- my mother has her first kid over forty right now, as I was her first kid and am now over forty; what I mean is that these mothers this woman was referring to are over forty when they have their first kid) (this woman felt okay in saying this as she herself was over forty, with a little "baby" but had other kids much earlier) and she said these other women seemed to believe that the sun shone out their children's asses and they as a result found it cute when these little kids ran around stealing other people's forks etc. And she tried to avoid being irritating in that way.
It made me wonder whether the sun really shone out my own kids' asses, as I had always believed, or whether I suffered from SRS and just thought it did.
I suppose both are possible - ones kids can be genuinely exceptional and the parent can still be less than objective.
This occurred to me just now because I caught myself about to type something describing Gamma banging on the piano as sort of Johnny B. Goode decomposed in an elevator by John Cale.
On the other hand, she stood me in front of the piano yesterday and told me which note each key was, and she's never had a lesson.
Posted at June 4, 2004 08:56 AMWhich leads us to a new word!
Hippopochondriac: Person with the persistent conviction that he or she is or is likely to become a sick, large, chiefly aquatic African herbivorous mammal, often involving symptoms when illness is neither present nor likely, and persisting despite reassurance and medical evidence to the contrary.
Posted by: joeri at June 4, 2004 09:45 AMHyperchondriac: Person with the persistent conviction that they are in perfect health, despite symptoms or evidence to the contrary.
Posted by: mig at June 4, 2004 10:29 AMHaving been WAY up close and personal to my child's ass and the various substances that have emanated from it, I am quite positive there ain't no sunshine up there.
Perhaps it' something in the formula those people use.
Posted by: Brian at June 4, 2004 01:37 PMI admit it, I am deeply sunburned from the SRS that my daughter brings out. However my son who just turned to a teenager is starting to suffer an eclipse of SRS in his case.
Posted by: paul at June 4, 2004 07:07 PMYou're going to have to email me her written compositions (checks watch, sets timer for an hour from now) so I can play them over here.
Posted by: Jessica at June 4, 2004 09:25 PM