#anyways i shouldn't cavil. almost nobody has gotten really weird and hostile on the nephew posts | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

maculategiraffe · 2 years

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my post about the baby eating a tomato at the farmer's market has elicited mostly very positive reactions but there have been a couple of comments (since the containment breach) along the lines of "and then everyone clapped." and obviously I have no plans to question the authors of those comments but I am genuinely curious about what part of that story seems implausible to them. the tomato guy giving a baby a tomato for free? a baby happily eating a tomato? bystanders finding a tomato-eating baby adorable?

like it's a cute story sure but it doesn't seem all that credulity-straining to me. it's like if I said "so cozy in bed right now in my jammies" and some random stranger was like "suuuuure you are 🙄"

(I am. btw)

#psir #also someone was like 'i would not have stopped and said aww. i would have kept walking. to me babies eating messily is gross'#i was like... ok well i'm glad you told me. otherwise i might have come to your house with the baby and knocked on the door #and made you watch him eat a tomato #it's like on google maps when people are like 'does this location have a bike rack' and someone goes 'i don't know'#...then i wasn't talking to you???#anyways i shouldn't cavil. almost nobody has gotten really weird and hostile on the nephew posts

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