I had an encounter with a special human being tonight at work. She came toddling in with her parents, a vision with her puffy pink raincoat and long, messy blond hair. She looked 2-ish, about the same age as Leta. After the young family walked in the door, her dad scooped her up and set her on his shoulders. She sat there, her chin resting on the top of his head and her arms hanging down, totally unphased to be so much farther from the ground than she normally was.
As her mom and dad looked around up by the front, I caught her eye from behind the cash register, and gave her a huge grin. And sure enough, her eyes lit up, and she sat up and gave me a huge grin back. And it was love. I made some silly faces at her and she started to giggle, her parents totally oblivious to our budding friendship.
After a few minutes of shopping around the store, she came riding back up to the checkstand on her Dad’s shoulders. She didn’t seem to notice me, so I just proceeded with ringing her parents up. All of a sudden: “ToooDOOooooo!” She trilled. I looked up, and she was pointing right at me with a look of surprised glee on her face, as if she had just found her favorite stuffed animal again. Needless to say, I was pleased as punch, and waved “Hi!” right back at her.
As her parents carried her out of the store, she sang “Buh-bye!” She scrunched up her nose and eyes and gave me a huge, baby-teeth-filled grin that said quite clearly “We are totally the bestest friends ever.”
And I totally agreed. 
February 9th, 2006 at 7:02 pm
That’s cute.
on a side note I think it’s halarious that you linked to Leta - for all intensive purposes a random image of a child of a designer
February 9th, 2006 at 7:36 pm
Hah, you may think that Leta is just any kid, but she is DOOCE’S daughter. Which, although it may not mean anything to you, means that she’s fairly well known on the internet.
But yeah, it would be kind of funny that I randomly linked to her if you don’t know who she is.