{"id":1230,"date":"2018-01-30T10:20:33","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T15:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/?p=1230"},"modified":"2018-01-30T10:20:33","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T15:20:33","slug":"fiction-its-hard-out-here-for-a-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/fiction-its-hard-out-here-for-a-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiction: It’s Hard out Here for a Baby"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s Hard out Here for a Baby<\/strong><\/p>\n

Life isn\u2019t easy for a baby. No one seems to understand me. Sure every once in a while they do something amusing and I flash them a smile. Overall, however, these so-called grownups, the people are supposed to be in charge, don\u2019t seem to know what they\u2019re doing. I hope it isn\u2019t like this my whole life.<\/p>\n

Just the other day, my parents were preparing for a trip to the grocery store. Don\u2019t get me wrong, I enjoy watching them run around the house, gathering diapers and bottles, and always forgetting something. What makes me mad is when they strap me into that horrible chair, which if its use wasn\u2019t banned by the Geneva Convention, it should have been. The seatbelts always scratch my neck and keep me from touching my toes, which I would have you know I just recently discovered. On top of this, they pick me up and put my stupid chair in the car backwards, so the only thing I get to look at on the trip is the back of the car!<\/p>\n

Whoa, look at that! It\u2019s my hand\u2026Cool\u2026<\/p>\n

Sorry, where was I? Oh yeah. I was strapped into the seat on our way to the grocery store. I cried for a while just to let them know I wasn\u2019t happy with the whole seating arrangement. After that, I figured I could use a nap and just as I was dozing off, the parents were jerking me out of my car seat and into my stroller. This contraption might have been a pleasant change if it wasn\u2019t so filthy from being in the trunk of the car all day.<\/p>\n

By the way, what\u2019s up with the grocery store? It all seems pointless to me. Can\u2019t you people be like the rest of us and eat the natural way? I don\u2019t get my food off some shelf at the Piggly Wiggly, if you know what I mean.<\/p>\n

My parents managed to go through every aisle of the store and pick out all of their food without banging my stroller on anything too often. Of course they forgot the one item they were buying for me. I tried to tell them they forgot diapers, but they just wouldn\u2019t listen. They thought I just wanted to be held. Whatever the reason for the miscommunication, it means in a few hours I will be strapped into the seat again and paraded around the store.<\/p>\n

Anyhow, I haven\u2019t eaten in two hours and fifty-five minutes, and it doesn\u2019t seem like anybody notices. Enough of this, someone better feed me soon\u2026 \u201cWaaaaaaaa!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s Hard out Here for a Baby Life isn\u2019t easy for a baby. No one seems to understand me. Sure every once in a while they do something amusing and I flash them a smile. Overall, however, these so-called grownups, the people are supposed to be in charge, don\u2019t seem to know what they\u2019re doing. I hope it isn\u2019t like this my whole life. Just the other day, my parents were preparing for a trip to the grocery store. Don\u2019t…<\/p>\n

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