Baby watch

The City hall was pretty crowded. All kinds of people were there – Asians, Africans, South Americans, people from Middle East and lot more.

A mom was with her hyperactive boy at the clerk’s desk. The boy was about to outgrow his cart. His mom may decide to dump his cart any day. He rolled his cart around. He then kicked it towards his mom. The mom threatened him not to disturb her. She asked him to sit with her. But, he had other ideas. He took a walk around the hall. A serious looking girl was with her parents, who were waiting in the queue. She was visibly in a bad mood. The hyperactive boy went to the serious girl. She was unperturbed. He stood in front of her and smiled at her. She looked at him as though she was looking at a cockroach. When he went near her, she glared at him. May be, she had had a bad day. May be she was feeling sleepy. Or may be, she was fed up with stupid kids hitting on her. Whatever it was, the glare was enough to drive the hyperactive boy away from her.

The hyperactive boy then roamed around. He saw a cute girl walking with her dad. She was cuter than the Barbie doll she carried. The hyperactive boy followed her. She didn’t even turn towards him. She was busy chatting with her dad. Her dad would have realized how tough it is being the dad of a cute girl. He would have had a sample of the exasperation that he is very likely to go through in the years to come. The cute girl continued to ignore the boy. After some time, the hyperactive boy went back to his mom. He has a bright scope of growing into a big time Casanova.

And then, there was an annoying kid who was troubling an unfortunate guy endless. The unfortunate guy was trying to fill in an application form. The annoying kid kept picking at the unfortunate guy’s bag, books, pen, etc. The unfortunate guy looked at the annoying kid’s parents for help. They were into an animated conversation, unaware of the world around them. The unfortunate guy then packed his things and moved to a far away place. The annoying kid went in search of another unfortunate person.

The other day I saw these noisy Japanese identical twins at Media Markt. The noisy girls ran around shrieking at each other. They found a confused boy. They stood on either side of the confused boy and continued shrieking in Japanese (or, was it Chinese or Korean or some other language?). The confused boy became more confused and he kept blinking at the noisy twins. He looked as though he would burst into tears any moment. His parents saved him and took him away from the noisy girls. The noisy girls ran away. But, I was able to hear them shrieking till I left Media Markt.