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Seriously I had to take Eli with me to pay my rent the other day (she has an office, and I just take the rent in even though I could mail it cause its right down the road from me) cause Steve was at work and I would have to drive twice as far to drop him off anywhere else than I would just to take him with me plus it would be short (but painful lol). Anyway I brought him up to the office with me and she was on the phone for a couple minutes and then with someone else before getting to me and then of course she had to talk to me a minute and write me out a reciept and the whole time Eli was just being a pain, whining and crying and trying to touch things and being obnoxious. I'll tell ya - I didn't enjoy it! Its not how I would have liked things to go! I wasn't sitting there thinking "Man, I bet my landlord just loves my son being an obnoxious little brat, and man I just love chasing him around while I'm trying to have an adult conversation, and man it sure is cute when my son lets out an ear-piercing scream just because he dropped a matchbox car!!" I just dealt with it the best I could, and I apologized. It's just a part of life. Its a part of raising kids, of being a parent. And she was very understanding, because its also a part of life when you spend it in a world full of children being born and growing up every day everywhere.

I don't think somebody with one grown child could really remember and sympathize with what its like to HAVE to cart a toddler around to annoying places. I mean, yeah you didn't bring him to work (I don't bring mine either) but you never brought him ANYWHERE with you? I mean like every single place you ever brought your son when he was a little kid was just full of people who enjoyed his presence? I mean, you really have to use some empathy skills here.