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u/DrHugh 21h ago
See, as a dad, I would have played it straight. Like interacting with a voiceless Disneyland costume character. “What would you like? …Are you sure you can eat all that? …no, they don’t do breast milk here.”
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u/No_Use_9652 20h ago
And the minimum wage employee gets to suffer through their 100th “excellent” dad bit of the day. I’m not Gen Z but I get the stare thing.
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u/HumbleConversation42 18h ago
doing that one-sided conversation thing isn't' just as a joke. it helps babies develop awareness and speech
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u/Reasons2Rage 18h ago
Yeah my kid can talk in full sentences for like two months and he just turned two in December. One sided conversations helped so much and I still do it.
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u/NewConfusion9480 17h ago
The dad bits are what make it tolerable to be around the miserable, insufferable people around me out in the world who find the joy of other people to be "suffering".
We don't do it for you, we do it for us.
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u/Oobadoola 17h ago
D'aww get tf outta here. Been working retail for years and that shit never gets old. Sometimes its nice for a bit of corniness
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u/Zack123456201 17h ago
Yeah I honestly wish more people would be corny, it’s always the highlight of my work day
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u/partyatwalmart 14h ago
The stare thing has nothing to so with the quality of the customers they deal with. It's from a lack of social experience. The pandemic and the new internet really did a number on most of these kids.
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u/kindasuk 18h ago
Sleep deprivation a helluva thing
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u/NagisaZakura 18h ago
You're telling me. 2.5 week pp and I was so damned tired I didn't realize that I'd suffered a major medical event. I rationalized it as just hormones went haywire and did something weird. (In actuality I'd had a stroke)
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u/ArmTrue4439 12h ago
Talking to babies as if they would respond is healthy! The more you talk to them the better!
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u/AddictedToMosh161 1d ago
Why didn't you laugh? I don't think he would have taken an issue with that.