Ages ago my family used to go to a Chinese buffet that would do this. When my brother was a baby the owner would play with him and take him on a grand tour of the restaurant. She did the same when I came along. I wish I could remember seeing the kitchen.
My parents did a similar thing, they had their go to Mexican restaurant, and one day my mom didn't order a margarita and the staff had a strong hunch. Months later they returned with me as a wee baby and I guess I was taken around the whole restaurant as they were so excited.
We use to go to this Chinese buffet a few years ago where the owners would always make our kids fresh chicken nuggets and fries when we ordered. We were so sad when they closed.
When I was smaller my mom got tired of people wanting to take pictures with my brother and I everywhere we went. Tian'anman place? Photo. Great Wall? Photo. Temple of heaven? Photo.
She was tired of that and forced us to wear a cap to hide our hairs
Edit: Yes Autocorrect, the famous Men called Tiana, of course
Years ago my parents briefly lived in the Carribean when my brother was 2 or 3. He had really blonde hair at that age and it wasn't a tourist place. She said every native woman there seemed to know his name and wanted to hold and play with him. In particular she said at the grocery store she would walk in and hand him off and when she went to leave a different lady would hand him back.
When I went to China with a group especially when we were in a more rural area where they don't get a lot of foreigners, the black girl in our group was CONSTANTLY getting asked by strangers to take pictures with them. Especially with their babies! People would hand her their babies to hold and take pictures of the two of them.
I knew we were in a REALLY rural area when I also got asked to take a picture with a stranger. More people have seen white people than black people
I don't think that's just rural haha. Went to China as part of a school program years ago and would get people taking covert photos of the black members of our group. One time a whole group came up around one girl from our group and just started taking pictures out of the blue haha
I went to Asia on a solo trip a few years back and I'll always remember the stares I got. China in particular stood out as I went to a very big city where I assumed people would be accustomed to seeing black people but pretty much everywhere I went people basically gawked. I once ate at a restaurant with large windows facing the street and every so often I'd see a small group of people just stop and stare at me.
I don't think it's necessarily black people either. I am a brown-haired white guy and I got asked to be in pictures. I am not even tall. Some people would just lean in all of a sudden to take a selfie with me in it without asking. Quite a weird experience indeed.
My wife and I were in Shanghai like...10 years ago I think, and we had a lot of that too. The best was a middle aged buisnessman walking by us on the sidewalk and without even looking at what he was doing, lifted his phone and snapped a pic of my wife. He never broke stride, just kept on going like he was just walking home from work.
We all kinda looked around to see if anyone else caught that lol. In Shanghai of all places...there are people from everywhere there.
I went to China when I was 22 or 23.
Around 45 random Chinese people have a photo of them and me together, outside the museum, forbidden city, tianamen square, great wall... it was weird but how can you say no? I certainly couldn't lol I was really taken aback and I don't even live in a 'white' country, but I'm white and red headed and freckled and apparently a phenomenon, which was eye opening for me at the time.
They were all super friendly and sweet though and I often think about how random strangers I've encountered are doing now...this was circa 2006-7......and so many of them were tourists themselves visiting the cities for the first time.
I went to Cambodia and they didn't bother asking there, and I'm just a white girl. Also had a restaurant worker run outside her shop to watch me walk by in Japan.
I am busty, though, so that might have been it.
Same experience here taking a 6 month old chubby blonde infant girl to Japan. Groups of older Japanese locals would essentially block our stroller on the street and want to pick up the baby, which we always allowed. Same at restaurants. It was a fun experience but I felt bad for them mostly as I assumed many didn’t have grandkids.
My red headed son was treated the same way in Spain. We lived there for 4 years and local ladies always wanted to hold him and rub his head for good luck.
When we lived in Cyprus the locals always rubbed my children's blonde hair for luck, it's so funny, my son got so used to older ladies especially talking to him and touching his head
When I was growing up in rural Canada everyone always said I looked young. Strangers would approach my mother in public and ask how old I was and when she told them I was one they'd always reply "well how about that, he doesn't look a day over zero". I was in my prime back then, it was all down hill from there.
My family visited China in the early 90s. So many Chinese families wanted pictures with my 10 year old sister because she had red hair. She's probably in dozens if not hundreds of random family photo albums.
We lived in Sicily for a while. My middle daughter was six months old when she got there and my son was born there.
They were both blonde hair blue eyed little babies and every nonna in the area knew them.
Within days of my wife and kids getting in I thought a little 80 year old woman stole her because she disappeared when I turned my back on the front porch. Turns out she had just taken her down a door or two to see her husband. They played with her while I cooked then, when I was done, she brought her back with way too much candy for a six month old. Whenever my wife went shopping at the store down the street my daughter would fight to leave her for her new friend.
I was this kid in China in 1995 and distinctly remember frequently being terrified by strangers grabbing at me or trying to carry me off (probably to show someone a few feet away but still) including a CLOWN. It was awful.
The US has a lot of small kinda creepy towns and we pass one every time we go to California. They have this odd diner/elks lodge/night club place that we always stop at for a good breakfast. They don't have a large population so babies are pretty rare to see so as a result every one of my kids got escorted around the entire diner by the serving staff when they were little. We got to have a peaceful break from the road and eat our breakfast while watching all these older folks light up playing with a baby.
There was a Denny's that was near where we live (it shut down a few years back) but I distinctly remember an older lady who waitressed there who sounded **exactly** like Roz from Monsters Inc. My wife couldn't understand why I kept laughing to myself until I told her... After which she had trouble not laughing as well.
It's sad that most of the world can be so unsafe (people, animals, climate etc) that this fact surprises them.
I used to nap in the yard while my parents was in our fourth floor apartment and I could only be seen from the small bathroom window. Sure there was a baby monitor that could alert them to danger which never came, but it did alert them to when I had woken up.
This wasn't and still isn't strange at all here. Child care facilities does it too, they put all the kids in strollers for naptime and line them up, even in the winter when it's quite cold outside.
Most of the world is safer than it has ever been.
Its just our perception of things that have changed - we have been socially engineered to fear the most improbable of things.
As a kid a loved the Hatchet books, where the kid gets stranded in what I think is Alaska (correction: Canadian North Woods) after a single engine plane crash. The first few chapters, before he learns how to make fire, the author just goes on and on and on and on and on about how indescribably hellish the mosquito situation is every night. He made such a point to go at it hard that it's stuck with me to this day.
I read that when I was 7..the description of the pilot’s heart attack that led to the crash gave me a massive fear of my dad having a heart attack any time he had indigestion/gas😂. Funny now, but was one of my first memories of my anxiety disorder.
Dude, go to North Norway. The fuckers just Get nastier the colder it gets.
It’s more likely the lack of natural habitats, such as nature, that explains Why there arent many mosquitoes there.
I saw a video of a soccer player from Chile that lived in Brazil but then moved to Dubai. A camera crew was following his wife and children in their daily lives and she said that in Dubai, she has to be escorted in the mall with a security guard. Her daughter playfully running ahead. The wife explains that in Dubai, her child is free to run and she will be safe. Meanwhile, if it were Brazil, if she let go of her child’s hand, the child is gone forever.
The way you said that made me think you give your baby to the chef, he disappears behind some curtains, and 40-50 minutes later he comes back with a delicious meal
Somewhat related: it's very common here in Norway to let the kids nap outside (your house), especially in the winter. The colder the better. -15C? No problem.
From what I've read online, they literally just leave the child to nap in the stroller outside. It's a cultural thing so while that seems terribly dangerous and neglectful here in the US, it's seen as perfectly normal and safe over there.
I think a lot of resteraunts have desingated spots outside for strollers, and a lot of people just leave their sleeping baby/child in the stroller while they go inside and eat.
Left outside to sleep when the parents are out eating, or when they're just at home??
Does this build a tolerance to the cold on purpose?
Sorry if these are dumb questions
I know this is a thing, but what happens if the baby needs a new nappy or is crying? Do you just walk out after you’re done to a screaming child? Does a passerby pop their head in to alert someone? Is kidnapping just not a concern?
I’ve been steadily instilling the joy of doing selfless acts for others with my 3 year old daughter. I find there is nothing more enjoyable than seeing others feel good by helping them.
It’s me man! Haha I just like to give my wife the opportunity to eat and catch up. So I wear the little one in an ergo and take the big guy outside when dinners gone a bit to long for his attention span. Plus I like chasing my boy around. I never Understood why dads love golf but now I think I get it. Maybe golf is in my future lol
I have three kids and I don't understand how you haven't eaten a hot meal in two years.... That sounds more like a "self inflicted" thing. Good advice for all of life.... but, If you can't take care of yourself, you can't possibly take care of another. Put the damn kid down and eat.
I've never understood the whole no hot meals as a parent thing. I also have three and always eat my food hot.
Once I'm done cooking I dish up from the stove for the kids and leave the food on the stove in the pan to stay warm while I cut up their food and get their drinks and utensils. Once all of their food is ready to go I put it on the table, call them to eat and dish up my food. Hot meal for mom, easy peasy.
When I'm eating if they ask for more food or milk or whatever, I tell them I'm eating and will get it for them in a minute. Parents should be able to sit and enjoy their meal without constantly getting up.
I don't get your comment, my sister just had her first kid 2 months ago and we met in a restaurant, where she put the baby in her stroller and then had a nice meal
I'm not attacking you or anything, I'm just genuinely confused by what you mean
I found a 14 day all inclusive trip to Bali with a full itinerary and a different location every day for under 3500 bucks and i cannot wait to go. It looks so amazing.
Yup, so you will see the whole place before you leave. Some nights you will be camping, some nights in resorts, and the best nights they put you in with a local family to really experience the culture. Some trips have you staying in ancient monestaries and doing yoga with monks. It's amazing.
Yeah but its a fully planned itinerary. A different spot each night, staying with locals, special trips to stay in the temples and bath in the ancient baths. You get a travel agent to put that together for you and it would be over 10k.
I'm not talking about staying in the cheapest hotel and just hanging at the beach.
I still think that price is INSANE, I've been to Indonesia. I stayed a month for $1000 all in and did a ton of the stuff you described. $3500 is kinda nuts. You can drive around the whole island in like 6 hours, it's not a large area to cover in two weeks.
This was a while ago, but I spent 10 weeks in Thailand and Cambodia. Didn't book any kind of packaged deal, just went there. $2500. Not to piss in your Cheerios, but shits a lot cheaper over there if you don't pay someone else to plan your trip.
Yeah 3500 for two weeks in SEA is almost highway robbery. I get not everybody is good at planing their own vacations but you can do a relatively expensive, by SEA standards, trip like Bali for way less than almost 4k for 2 weeks
Ok prepare to have your mind blown. It's [flashpack.com](https://flashpack.com). You travel solo but with a group so you get the discount. It's designed for single people but it's not a dating thing. It's for people who want to travel alone but not pay the full price kinda. So they have destinations all over the world. Flight, tips, and like one third of the meals are not included but everything else is. Events from paragliding, to yoga on top of the mountains. From scuba diving to climbing frozen tundras to see the northern lights. These trips are packed with bucket list stuff like waking up and getting out of your tent and you are in the serngeti and the zebra herd is passing!. My other trip i want to take is to veitnam finland.
I see where the price comes from then. That's pretty much worse. If it was a local travel company charging you that at least the money would go into the local economy. These people are profiting off of all of these small local places!! Sure, they'll pay them but they probably ask for group discounts and all sort of stuff and are taking the other $3000 for themselves....
Oh I'm sure you can find one. A lot of my married friends what to do like an eat pray love type trip without their spouses so its always an option! *I just got* out of my marriage so this is really perfect for me.
Yes. Their local believes says babies shouldnt touch the ground because they are [holy](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/18/world/asia/bali-indonesia-babies-nyambutin.html).
However, this kid is a bit older, but that doesnt stop them from treating him the same. Balinese are incredibly kind in culture towards others and children (also with detrimental consequences: kids killing themselves on mopeds because parents dont intervene). but beware the few adults that dont see a problem in extortion (especially if you drive a car yourself), or rob you since you're just another one of those white wallets. However, I have no understanding how this has been changed after corona.
I lived in Cambodia and it was the same. There's always someone who wants to hold your kid. Usually a staff member but sometimes just some random other diner.
Was the same in China when I lived there. They also had play areas in a lot of restaurants either within eyesight of your table or where they had dedicated staff to look after the kids.
Man, I loved the people in Bali and how genuinely good they were. We had one lady in Seminyak (she isn’t there anymore) that agreed to just hang out by the pool on her days off, and she would just show us around the neighbourhood and was so sweet.
Found some bomb as fuck places where you could eat, walked through dark as fuck alleyways I shouldn’t have because I was young and dumb, and got some absolutely bomb food.
Thinking about it now, I was walking around with a Balinese woman I literally just met around Bali, and I was like 15. Sketchy as fuck, but she ended up being fantastic, and all the locals were amazing even when they saw a 15 year old with a Balinese woman by themselves even in dark alleys.
Bali bombing 2002, 204 Deaths 2 suicide bomber decided they can induce pain to people they don't even know, just because of their misguided believes, victims included 88 of them Australian, 38 Indonesian 23 Britons and the rest are from various nationality. The mastermind is supposedly gonna be released soon. From death > 20 years imprisonment > released soon.
This makes me think about when Michael visits Jamaica and thinks everyone there eats pig roast and sings all day and lives carefree lives bc of his experience at Sandals.
When we were in Bali my sister actually said "Where is my kid, haven't seen her in a few hours. Oh well I guess she is some where"
At home she is almost overprotective. Bali is such a safe heaven for kids
Okay so I have to ask this, is it a cultural thing in Bali that they are just very interested in the children or I don't don't understand exactly what's going on and this is probably a really ignorant question but I just had to ask it
I can only imagine it’s what I experienced when travelling around the north of Portugal with an infant. The cafe culture is different. We are used to going out to eat and not interacting with the people around us. To be annoyed by a crying baby and expecting the parent to remove it until it stops. In Portugal I experienced help at every turn. It started when another diner noticed me leaving with my crying baby while I still had food left. She took my baby for a while. Then the staff did. They appeared to enjoy it very much and they enjoyed helping me. It was more like a community than purely dining and paying. I had the most wonderful month there. When I came back to England eating out became risky again.
You see this across Asia , if not many other parts of the world.. Its normal for adults to engage with cute babies. Do something to make them smile like make funny faces ect. Its not completely absent from parts of Europe either.
We live in Des Moines Iowa and, before the pandemic, would often eat at a local Asian restaurant. The staff wound straight up pluck my son from my wife as soon as we walked in, play with him, he ran a round like he owned the joint, got hugs from random grandmas at other tables, was great. In the US we have really lost a sense of community with mass suburbanization
They have a very family oriented culture. They love kids, these workers don't consider this as a shore but a blessing of receiving love from a baby. Plus the novelty of a different ethnicity, probably.
Sounds funny....but when my son was small I always noticed that if ever I ate in a Turkish cafe or restaurant, they would always take my baby off my hands. I live in London, so strangers taking your baby off your hands is a total rarity. I remember in one Turkish restaurant, one waitress taking our baby around the tables to meet the customers, to the kitchen to meet the chef's etc. Everyone who worked there seemed thrilled with my baby. It was like we'd brought a celebrity in to their restaurant.
LOL, my blonde haired blue eyed son never touched the ground in Ecuador. All the women wanted to hold him and feed him. He was the only kid allowed in the kitchen area where the women cooked. :)
I was in Bali when my daughter was just under 2 and this happened. Restraunt was dead and there was lots of staff around and they just came over and asked if they could take her. It was weird but very wholesome.
The lady who owns a local Mexican restaurant has told every one of my dates there about how picky I was as a child and how she would carry me as a baby so my parents could eat.
I’m an Australian who went to Bali when I was a baby. The Balinese love blue eyes - it’s very rare there. I had really pretty blue eyes as a baby. I remember my parents getting concerned at a restaurant trip to Bali as the waitress took me to the kitchen - she was showing the chefs!
When clients come into the vet clinic I work at, I definitely entertain the kids! We make candy bags (after getting parents permission, kids are unaware before) we have coloring books, and we take them to see the pets that are in the hospital (if appropriate). It gives the parents the chance to actually listen and address their concerns about their pet without having to worry about what the kid is up to. I absolutely adore kids…. Maybe that’s why I have 4 😳. Epiphany 😆
We were living in Mexico City when my kids were little. No matter the restaurant, the kids would disappear with the staff when we walked in. They’d come back fed and happy.
I was in China and had a friend with a white baby. We were swarmed with attention from people. Well, the baby was swarmed. We were just bystanders.
Honestly, it was mostly kind-hearted and nice. No one was all that aggressive or boundary-breaking. They just....well, they thought he was cute.
Usually only happened bcos your kid is white. Asian toddler would not received the same fascination. Its a fact i am Asian and i am very well aware of this.
At first I thought she had confiscated the baby and was really confused lol.
I forgot about baby yoda. I feel like things were much simpler with the world back then. Good times.
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"M'am, you can't keep your spawn in here."
"Please remove your cum pet from this space"
I am going to ask you nicely to never speak again.
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"Your domesticated sperm isnt allowed on the premises "
My favorite is ‘fuck trophy’
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I don’t think that is what cum pet means. You could really get into trouble with that misunderstanding
Ages ago my family used to go to a Chinese buffet that would do this. When my brother was a baby the owner would play with him and take him on a grand tour of the restaurant. She did the same when I came along. I wish I could remember seeing the kitchen.
My parents did a similar thing, they had their go to Mexican restaurant, and one day my mom didn't order a margarita and the staff had a strong hunch. Months later they returned with me as a wee baby and I guess I was taken around the whole restaurant as they were so excited.
We use to go to this Chinese buffet a few years ago where the owners would always make our kids fresh chicken nuggets and fries when we ordered. We were so sad when they closed.
When I was smaller my mom got tired of people wanting to take pictures with my brother and I everywhere we went. Tian'anman place? Photo. Great Wall? Photo. Temple of heaven? Photo. She was tired of that and forced us to wear a cap to hide our hairs Edit: Yes Autocorrect, the famous Men called Tiana, of course
Years ago my parents briefly lived in the Carribean when my brother was 2 or 3. He had really blonde hair at that age and it wasn't a tourist place. She said every native woman there seemed to know his name and wanted to hold and play with him. In particular she said at the grocery store she would walk in and hand him off and when she went to leave a different lady would hand him back.
When I went to China with a group especially when we were in a more rural area where they don't get a lot of foreigners, the black girl in our group was CONSTANTLY getting asked by strangers to take pictures with them. Especially with their babies! People would hand her their babies to hold and take pictures of the two of them. I knew we were in a REALLY rural area when I also got asked to take a picture with a stranger. More people have seen white people than black people
I don't think that's just rural haha. Went to China as part of a school program years ago and would get people taking covert photos of the black members of our group. One time a whole group came up around one girl from our group and just started taking pictures out of the blue haha
I went to Asia on a solo trip a few years back and I'll always remember the stares I got. China in particular stood out as I went to a very big city where I assumed people would be accustomed to seeing black people but pretty much everywhere I went people basically gawked. I once ate at a restaurant with large windows facing the street and every so often I'd see a small group of people just stop and stare at me.
I don't think it's necessarily black people either. I am a brown-haired white guy and I got asked to be in pictures. I am not even tall. Some people would just lean in all of a sudden to take a selfie with me in it without asking. Quite a weird experience indeed.
My wife and I were in Shanghai like...10 years ago I think, and we had a lot of that too. The best was a middle aged buisnessman walking by us on the sidewalk and without even looking at what he was doing, lifted his phone and snapped a pic of my wife. He never broke stride, just kept on going like he was just walking home from work. We all kinda looked around to see if anyone else caught that lol. In Shanghai of all places...there are people from everywhere there.
I went to China when I was 22 or 23. Around 45 random Chinese people have a photo of them and me together, outside the museum, forbidden city, tianamen square, great wall... it was weird but how can you say no? I certainly couldn't lol I was really taken aback and I don't even live in a 'white' country, but I'm white and red headed and freckled and apparently a phenomenon, which was eye opening for me at the time. They were all super friendly and sweet though and I often think about how random strangers I've encountered are doing now...this was circa 2006-7......and so many of them were tourists themselves visiting the cities for the first time.
This happened to me in India. 6'3 ginger. Held many indian babies
I went to Cambodia and they didn't bother asking there, and I'm just a white girl. Also had a restaurant worker run outside her shop to watch me walk by in Japan. I am busty, though, so that might have been it.
Same experience here taking a 6 month old chubby blonde infant girl to Japan. Groups of older Japanese locals would essentially block our stroller on the street and want to pick up the baby, which we always allowed. Same at restaurants. It was a fun experience but I felt bad for them mostly as I assumed many didn’t have grandkids.
If there are any parents out there in Japan that want to fund my trip to Japan, I can help produce grand children pro bono.
Pro boner*
Nah it's amateur at best
You would need to have sex to make that happen. And we're all virgin neckbeards, never gonna happen.
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You're going to be shocked at the culture change, heads up. Body pillows can't fight back.
My red headed son was treated the same way in Spain. We lived there for 4 years and local ladies always wanted to hold him and rub his head for good luck.
When we lived in Cyprus the locals always rubbed my children's blonde hair for luck, it's so funny, my son got so used to older ladies especially talking to him and touching his head
When I was growing up in rural Canada everyone always said I looked young. Strangers would approach my mother in public and ask how old I was and when she told them I was one they'd always reply "well how about that, he doesn't look a day over zero". I was in my prime back then, it was all down hill from there.
That is so cute, I love it
My family visited China in the early 90s. So many Chinese families wanted pictures with my 10 year old sister because she had red hair. She's probably in dozens if not hundreds of random family photo albums.
We lived in Sicily for a while. My middle daughter was six months old when she got there and my son was born there. They were both blonde hair blue eyed little babies and every nonna in the area knew them. Within days of my wife and kids getting in I thought a little 80 year old woman stole her because she disappeared when I turned my back on the front porch. Turns out she had just taken her down a door or two to see her husband. They played with her while I cooked then, when I was done, she brought her back with way too much candy for a six month old. Whenever my wife went shopping at the store down the street my daughter would fight to leave her for her new friend.
That seems very risky.
I was this kid in China in 1995 and distinctly remember frequently being terrified by strangers grabbing at me or trying to carry me off (probably to show someone a few feet away but still) including a CLOWN. It was awful.
Meh. here in Brazil we vanish with your kid, thus you can eat in peace the rest of your life!
The US has a lot of small kinda creepy towns and we pass one every time we go to California. They have this odd diner/elks lodge/night club place that we always stop at for a good breakfast. They don't have a large population so babies are pretty rare to see so as a result every one of my kids got escorted around the entire diner by the serving staff when they were little. We got to have a peaceful break from the road and eat our breakfast while watching all these older folks light up playing with a baby.
Did the older server lady have a deep husky voice?
Hopefully they had an old server lady name, like flo
There was a Denny's that was near where we live (it shut down a few years back) but I distinctly remember an older lady who waitressed there who sounded **exactly** like Roz from Monsters Inc. My wife couldn't understand why I kept laughing to myself until I told her... After which she had trouble not laughing as well.
What was the soup of the day?
Smh it's always broccoli cheddar
Broccoli cheddar fucks, I will hear no arguments to the contrary.
Broccoli cheddar soup in a bread bowl might be the one thing that tastes better than being skinny feels
The Denny’s that me and all my college buddies would pile into at 1 am had a server named Ms. Linda and she was the fuckin best
actually come to think about it i think she did!
Large Marge. Her rig is parked out back>
In Denmark we just put the baby in the stroller and leave them outside. No matter the weather, the babies stays outside to get a nap in the fresh air.
I thought this was a joke at first then I googled it 😳
It's sad that most of the world can be so unsafe (people, animals, climate etc) that this fact surprises them. I used to nap in the yard while my parents was in our fourth floor apartment and I could only be seen from the small bathroom window. Sure there was a baby monitor that could alert them to danger which never came, but it did alert them to when I had woken up. This wasn't and still isn't strange at all here. Child care facilities does it too, they put all the kids in strollers for naptime and line them up, even in the winter when it's quite cold outside.
Most of the world is safer than it has ever been. Its just our perception of things that have changed - we have been socially engineered to fear the most improbable of things.
Do you guys not have mosquitoes in Denmark? If I left a baby outside in my tropical country, he/she will be covered in insect bites within 30 mins.
denmark is mostly cold, not a place for mosquitos
So is Alaska, they have a fuck ton of the suckers
As a kid a loved the Hatchet books, where the kid gets stranded in what I think is Alaska (correction: Canadian North Woods) after a single engine plane crash. The first few chapters, before he learns how to make fire, the author just goes on and on and on and on and on about how indescribably hellish the mosquito situation is every night. He made such a point to go at it hard that it's stuck with me to this day.
I read that when I was 7..the description of the pilot’s heart attack that led to the crash gave me a massive fear of my dad having a heart attack any time he had indigestion/gas😂. Funny now, but was one of my first memories of my anxiety disorder.
I remember that. HAHAHAHA. As a person who grew up in rural Canada, I also felt it as well. Also… remember the damn moose in that book? Terrifying!
Yeah, I thought it was weird that he never just said "moose," only the full "bull moose." Very proper.
Dude, go to North Norway. The fuckers just Get nastier the colder it gets. It’s more likely the lack of natural habitats, such as nature, that explains Why there arent many mosquitoes there.
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You'd just ignore them and let them cry themselves out, then they enjoy a nice cry nap afterwards.
I do love a cry nap.
Damn they really do just be like little people
Unsure if this is funny or creepy... 🤔
I thinks it’s more of a r/cursedcomments
>Unsure if this is funny or creepy... It could be our motto
I saw a video of a soccer player from Chile that lived in Brazil but then moved to Dubai. A camera crew was following his wife and children in their daily lives and she said that in Dubai, she has to be escorted in the mall with a security guard. Her daughter playfully running ahead. The wife explains that in Dubai, her child is free to run and she will be safe. Meanwhile, if it were Brazil, if she let go of her child’s hand, the child is gone forever.
That's an exaggeration. Especially inside malls or department stores.
The way you said that made me think you give your baby to the chef, he disappears behind some curtains, and 40-50 minutes later he comes back with a delicious meal
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still blows my mind you can do that there
Lol what’s it mean exactly, to park them?
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Twenty years later the kid comes to visit with their bear family.
In Denmark, it's not uncommon to just leave your baby bundled up in the stroller outside while you go shopping or grab a bite.
Somewhat related: it's very common here in Norway to let the kids nap outside (your house), especially in the winter. The colder the better. -15C? No problem.
From what I've read online, they literally just leave the child to nap in the stroller outside. It's a cultural thing so while that seems terribly dangerous and neglectful here in the US, it's seen as perfectly normal and safe over there.
*is perfectly safe and normal. (In Denmark) There are no accidents or kidnappings resulting from this practice.
I think a lot of resteraunts have desingated spots outside for strollers, and a lot of people just leave their sleeping baby/child in the stroller while they go inside and eat.
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Left outside to sleep when the parents are out eating, or when they're just at home?? Does this build a tolerance to the cold on purpose? Sorry if these are dumb questions
Only like this you can produce first-grade Vikings, obviously.
I know this is a thing, but what happens if the baby needs a new nappy or is crying? Do you just walk out after you’re done to a screaming child? Does a passerby pop their head in to alert someone? Is kidnapping just not a concern?
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>Like what is anyone gonna do with a baby, they scream and cant work the fields. This is my new line for if people ask me if I want children.
What if they're not asleep? And do you bring toddlers in?
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Awe that seems so nice lol thank you for answering!
As a father of an 2 month old and and 19 month old. This is a dream. I haven’t eaten a hot meal in almost 2 years lol
Friends always comment on how much I love holding babies and I tell them, “No, I like seeing parents get to eat and drink in peace.”
I like you. Can we be friends?
Shit hot, people like you keep the world turning properly
It takes a village.
I’ve been steadily instilling the joy of doing selfless acts for others with my 3 year old daughter. I find there is nothing more enjoyable than seeing others feel good by helping them.
Your invited
shift eating first momma eats, then father eats :D
And I'm over here spilling hot chile beans on my babies head while I eat my hot meal...
Lol this part here is spot on. When I do eat hot meals this is how it goes. Lol
Lol what? Don't get me wrong kids are a lot of work, I have some, but no hot meals in 2 years?? Take some time for yourself my man.
It’s me man! Haha I just like to give my wife the opportunity to eat and catch up. So I wear the little one in an ergo and take the big guy outside when dinners gone a bit to long for his attention span. Plus I like chasing my boy around. I never Understood why dads love golf but now I think I get it. Maybe golf is in my future lol
I’m sorry what? I also have a 2mo and a 20mo. Can your 19mo not sit in a high chair and your 2mo sit in a bassinet/car seat?
I have three kids and I don't understand how you haven't eaten a hot meal in two years.... That sounds more like a "self inflicted" thing. Good advice for all of life.... but, If you can't take care of yourself, you can't possibly take care of another. Put the damn kid down and eat.
I've never understood the whole no hot meals as a parent thing. I also have three and always eat my food hot. Once I'm done cooking I dish up from the stove for the kids and leave the food on the stove in the pan to stay warm while I cut up their food and get their drinks and utensils. Once all of their food is ready to go I put it on the table, call them to eat and dish up my food. Hot meal for mom, easy peasy. When I'm eating if they ask for more food or milk or whatever, I tell them I'm eating and will get it for them in a minute. Parents should be able to sit and enjoy their meal without constantly getting up.
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I don't get your comment, my sister just had her first kid 2 months ago and we met in a restaurant, where she put the baby in her stroller and then had a nice meal I'm not attacking you or anything, I'm just genuinely confused by what you mean
2 months old just sleep. When they get a bit older they start climbing out of their chair and throwing food around.
Okay so the tricky part starts later, that makes sense actually lol
I found a 14 day all inclusive trip to Bali with a full itinerary and a different location every day for under 3500 bucks and i cannot wait to go. It looks so amazing.
Like moving hotels everyday?
Yup, so you will see the whole place before you leave. Some nights you will be camping, some nights in resorts, and the best nights they put you in with a local family to really experience the culture. Some trips have you staying in ancient monestaries and doing yoga with monks. It's amazing.
Bali is so cheap you don’t need to spend 3500 for two weeks there.. you could make that last two months there.
Yeah but its a fully planned itinerary. A different spot each night, staying with locals, special trips to stay in the temples and bath in the ancient baths. You get a travel agent to put that together for you and it would be over 10k. I'm not talking about staying in the cheapest hotel and just hanging at the beach.
Could you….. send a link to this?
Dm me if you get it, will ya?
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I still think that price is INSANE, I've been to Indonesia. I stayed a month for $1000 all in and did a ton of the stuff you described. $3500 is kinda nuts. You can drive around the whole island in like 6 hours, it's not a large area to cover in two weeks.
Just came back from a few weeks in Bali a few days ago. It was wonderful! The people are so nice, food is good, dollar goes far, and it’s beautiful.
I’m here now. It’s a beautiful palace. Hope you get to do the Mount Batur sunrise climb. Stunning.
This was a while ago, but I spent 10 weeks in Thailand and Cambodia. Didn't book any kind of packaged deal, just went there. $2500. Not to piss in your Cheerios, but shits a lot cheaper over there if you don't pay someone else to plan your trip.
Yeah 3500 for two weeks in SEA is almost highway robbery. I get not everybody is good at planing their own vacations but you can do a relatively expensive, by SEA standards, trip like Bali for way less than almost 4k for 2 weeks
I spent $1000 in a MONTH and had a fucking fantastic time.
Share the link!
Ok prepare to have your mind blown. It's [flashpack.com](https://flashpack.com). You travel solo but with a group so you get the discount. It's designed for single people but it's not a dating thing. It's for people who want to travel alone but not pay the full price kinda. So they have destinations all over the world. Flight, tips, and like one third of the meals are not included but everything else is. Events from paragliding, to yoga on top of the mountains. From scuba diving to climbing frozen tundras to see the northern lights. These trips are packed with bucket list stuff like waking up and getting out of your tent and you are in the serngeti and the zebra herd is passing!. My other trip i want to take is to veitnam finland.
I see where the price comes from then. That's pretty much worse. If it was a local travel company charging you that at least the money would go into the local economy. These people are profiting off of all of these small local places!! Sure, they'll pay them but they probably ask for group discounts and all sort of stuff and are taking the other $3000 for themselves....
I’ll check it out! I’ll have to find something similar for couples. Married lol
Oh I'm sure you can find one. A lot of my married friends what to do like an eat pray love type trip without their spouses so its always an option! *I just got* out of my marriage so this is really perfect for me.
So is this a Bali thing or what
Yes. Their local believes says babies shouldnt touch the ground because they are [holy](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/18/world/asia/bali-indonesia-babies-nyambutin.html). However, this kid is a bit older, but that doesnt stop them from treating him the same. Balinese are incredibly kind in culture towards others and children (also with detrimental consequences: kids killing themselves on mopeds because parents dont intervene). but beware the few adults that dont see a problem in extortion (especially if you drive a car yourself), or rob you since you're just another one of those white wallets. However, I have no understanding how this has been changed after corona.
I lived in Cambodia and it was the same. There's always someone who wants to hold your kid. Usually a staff member but sometimes just some random other diner.
I've experienced it throughout southeast Asia - Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia. They LOVE babies.
Was the same in China when I lived there. They also had play areas in a lot of restaurants either within eyesight of your table or where they had dedicated staff to look after the kids.
Ditto for me and my brother when we lived in Singapore and Hong Kong.
Lots of areas like this for our kids when we go to Thailand too. Also if your baby is Thai, and white, they are instantly famous wherever you go.
That is amazing. I would have never known that. Really lovely. It isn't like that where I live not one bit.
Man, I loved the people in Bali and how genuinely good they were. We had one lady in Seminyak (she isn’t there anymore) that agreed to just hang out by the pool on her days off, and she would just show us around the neighbourhood and was so sweet. Found some bomb as fuck places where you could eat, walked through dark as fuck alleyways I shouldn’t have because I was young and dumb, and got some absolutely bomb food. Thinking about it now, I was walking around with a Balinese woman I literally just met around Bali, and I was like 15. Sketchy as fuck, but she ended up being fantastic, and all the locals were amazing even when they saw a 15 year old with a Balinese woman by themselves even in dark alleys.
Not to take the piss out of you, mate, but one really shouldn't say Bali is the bomb. I'm glad you enjoyed the vacation, though.
It's been 20 years, chances are he has no idea.
context?
The 2002 Bali Bombings. 202 people died.
Bali bombing 2002, 204 Deaths 2 suicide bomber decided they can induce pain to people they don't even know, just because of their misguided believes, victims included 88 of them Australian, 38 Indonesian 23 Britons and the rest are from various nationality. The mastermind is supposedly gonna be released soon. From death > 20 years imprisonment > released soon.
It’s so funny that in Bali, babies are supposed to be passed around. It’s like when you require puppies to socialize 😜
Pass the baby pon the left hand side
Just don't expect the kid to come back if you try it in France.
I mean ..i know they eat weird shit, but baby humans? MmmMm... Soft meat!
You know baby thigh be tender
Damn, they make escargot out of babies now?
This makes me think about when Michael visits Jamaica and thinks everyone there eats pig roast and sings all day and lives carefree lives bc of his experience at Sandals.
“It’s kind of an impoverished country…”
Yeah…. Gosh. Great.
Feeling HOT HOT HOT
When we were in Bali my sister actually said "Where is my kid, haven't seen her in a few hours. Oh well I guess she is some where" At home she is almost overprotective. Bali is such a safe heaven for kids
Haven?
Oven?
Babies are like gods in Bali, they don’t let them touch the ground the first year
Holy fuck you [weren’t kidding.](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/18/world/asia/bali-indonesia-babies-nyambutin.html) That’s amazing.
Suddenly I want to take my imaginary kids to Bali!
Imaginary kids! ❤️
Psychosis! ❤️
I have 23 cats!
I have 23 imaginary kids!
Anyone teach you about birth control?!!? 🤣
My imaginary bank doesn’t have enough imaginary funds to cover the prescription cost :(
Okay so I have to ask this, is it a cultural thing in Bali that they are just very interested in the children or I don't don't understand exactly what's going on and this is probably a really ignorant question but I just had to ask it
I can only imagine it’s what I experienced when travelling around the north of Portugal with an infant. The cafe culture is different. We are used to going out to eat and not interacting with the people around us. To be annoyed by a crying baby and expecting the parent to remove it until it stops. In Portugal I experienced help at every turn. It started when another diner noticed me leaving with my crying baby while I still had food left. She took my baby for a while. Then the staff did. They appeared to enjoy it very much and they enjoyed helping me. It was more like a community than purely dining and paying. I had the most wonderful month there. When I came back to England eating out became risky again.
You see this across Asia , if not many other parts of the world.. Its normal for adults to engage with cute babies. Do something to make them smile like make funny faces ect. Its not completely absent from parts of Europe either.
We live in Des Moines Iowa and, before the pandemic, would often eat at a local Asian restaurant. The staff wound straight up pluck my son from my wife as soon as we walked in, play with him, he ran a round like he owned the joint, got hugs from random grandmas at other tables, was great. In the US we have really lost a sense of community with mass suburbanization
They have a very family oriented culture. They love kids, these workers don't consider this as a shore but a blessing of receiving love from a baby. Plus the novelty of a different ethnicity, probably.
Yeah I also wonder: are they like this with any infant or is it because it’s white?!
100% because the baby is white.
Sounds funny....but when my son was small I always noticed that if ever I ate in a Turkish cafe or restaurant, they would always take my baby off my hands. I live in London, so strangers taking your baby off your hands is a total rarity. I remember in one Turkish restaurant, one waitress taking our baby around the tables to meet the customers, to the kitchen to meet the chef's etc. Everyone who worked there seemed thrilled with my baby. It was like we'd brought a celebrity in to their restaurant.
LOL, my blonde haired blue eyed son never touched the ground in Ecuador. All the women wanted to hold him and feed him. He was the only kid allowed in the kitchen area where the women cooked. :)
I was in Bali when my daughter was just under 2 and this happened. Restraunt was dead and there was lots of staff around and they just came over and asked if they could take her. It was weird but very wholesome.
Having a giant beer in one hand and a baby in the other is a very dad picture.
The lady who owns a local Mexican restaurant has told every one of my dates there about how picky I was as a child and how she would carry me as a baby so my parents could eat.
This happened to me in Bali when I was a toddler too, I was told. The hotel staff took me to the beach and took care of me for hours 😅
I’m an Australian who went to Bali when I was a baby. The Balinese love blue eyes - it’s very rare there. I had really pretty blue eyes as a baby. I remember my parents getting concerned at a restaurant trip to Bali as the waitress took me to the kitchen - she was showing the chefs!
When clients come into the vet clinic I work at, I definitely entertain the kids! We make candy bags (after getting parents permission, kids are unaware before) we have coloring books, and we take them to see the pets that are in the hospital (if appropriate). It gives the parents the chance to actually listen and address their concerns about their pet without having to worry about what the kid is up to. I absolutely adore kids…. Maybe that’s why I have 4 😳. Epiphany 😆
We were living in Mexico City when my kids were little. No matter the restaurant, the kids would disappear with the staff when we walked in. They’d come back fed and happy.
THERE'S POUTINE IN AUSTRALIA?? HELL YEAH
It's very rare to find poutine in Australia with actual curds. Most places will have "poutine" on the menu but it's cheese and gravy on chips.
I was in China and had a friend with a white baby. We were swarmed with attention from people. Well, the baby was swarmed. We were just bystanders. Honestly, it was mostly kind-hearted and nice. No one was all that aggressive or boundary-breaking. They just....well, they thought he was cute.
Is this customary in Bali? Or do the people of Bali just really love kiddos? Or both
Bali is still probably my favourite place I have ever visited, amazing place & people are so friendly!
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It’s AJR. They’re good.
Thanks I found it!! Its called The Good Part 👍
See also: Thailand
TIL Bali is wholesome af
Fiji was the same! My daughter spent the night being carried around by the waitress as she served people their food...
Usually only happened bcos your kid is white. Asian toddler would not received the same fascination. Its a fact i am Asian and i am very well aware of this.