An email was sent out at work announcing the birth of a colleagues son. "Healthy baby boy...mother is well...leaving hospital today ... name has yet to be determined."
um, what?!
Have you ever heard of this? How can you not have a name for your baby? That's like looking for a dog and never once suggesting what you'll call it. No, actually it's nothing like that. Because even people who will never have dogs, have names already picked out for them. If you can't list 3 names for a hypothetical dog, right this second, you're lying.
But a child?! You had 9 months, are you kidding me? Even Panda's can come up with names for their cubs and I think they have significantly less time to think about it. Granted, they could use an extra few months, they are notoriously horrible at naming offspring. "Yea, we're gonna go with Ling. And um, i guess ... yea, why don't we throw another Ling in there."
I thought I heard somewhere that you're not allowed to leave a hospital until the baby has a name. It'll be so obvious when the kid grows up that his parents put no thought into it and just spewed something out last minute. Like Jennifer Grey's character in Dirty Dancing.
The Director's Cut of that movie opens with her parents tapping on the glass of the nursery and a Doctor says, "You can't leave here until you give that baby a name."
And Jerry Orbach's character shrugs his shoulders and is like, "OK, whatever." And then he pulls a gun and gets all up in the doctor's face and says, "And I want her crib moved out of that effing corner, you dig?"
Oh yeah, Jerry Orbach was a Black Panther in that version. It was good.
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