toby of the day, 2.4.2008

This morning we put Toby in his sling and set out to our neighborhood coffee shop for breakfast. when riding in his sling, toby looks a bit like a hovering Buddha, though he feels a bit more like a sack of rocks. In any case, while standing in line, a middle-aged woman started staring at us. Toby gets lots of stares, which jon and I have become accustomed to. Generally, the people who stare have no interest in, and in fact sometimes barely notice, that toby is attached to a larger person, so we’ve adopted the strategy to just ignore them. Which is what we did this morning, we kept discussing what we wanted to order, the upcoming workday, etc. and just ignored her. But slowly we realized that she wasn’t smiling but instead harbored a look of concern and confusion. Which made sense when she suddenly exclaimed “Where are the legs?!?”. Then she poked toby below the belt. Jon was tempted to give a surly anatomical description, while I was tempted to tell her he didn’t have any legs, but we just smiled and pointed at toby’s legs through the sling, and whisked him away.