Thursday, October 05, 2006 || Irresponsible parents!
- Today, I was having lunch, and I noticed this really cute kid running around. She was really young - about 3 or 4, I'm guessing, and she was running around alone. Damn cute kid, she was really tiny and had long curly hair. :D
'Okay, maybe her parents are eating at a table somewhere near us ...', I thought to myself. So I continued eating my lunch ... But after like, 10 minutes, she was STILL running around. =.= She was practically trotting around to everybody's tables and looking at them eat their food and all.
Eh, this can't be right! Where're her parents? She wandered out of the restaurant and was wandering around the shops nearby ALONE. What a sight! The worst thing was, nobody really paid much attention to her, except for a curious glance or so.
So 'cause I was worried, I finally told my friend to wait a bit while I followed her around just in case her parents really were NOT around. Finally, I decided that there was no way that her mum was around, or she'd definitely not let her 3 year old daughter run around like this. What mother in her right mind would do THAT?
I talked to the cute girl and carried her back to the restaurant. "Where's mama?", I asked her. She dubiously raised both her hands into the air in an "I don't know" gesture. DAMN CUTE, I TELL YOU!
So I put her on my lap while my friend and I cooed and baby-talked her for about 10 minutes 'till her mother finally arrived, looking for her. -____-
When the mother took the baby girl from me, I almost scolded her for being such an irresponsible parent. LOOK, what if I was a pimp mama or what if it was some kinda pedo kidnapper who found her, not me? If you wanna have a baby, AT LEAST take your responsibilities seriously and not leave your kid running around for twenty minutes, can?
I should've called child support or the police ok! *geram* But well, I bit my tongue and glared at her with a half-smile.
When she carried the baby girl into her arms and walked out of the restaurant, the kid waved and grinned a totally adorable toothy grin at me. AWWWWWWW so cute.
But as for her mum ....... I just REALLY hope that it was a once-in-a-lifetime kinda thing. Poor kid.
Watching them walk off, I swore that one day, I am gonna be a GOOD mum. *grrrrrr*
