Baby Pics!
Some girl I knew from college just sent me an email with picture files of her new baby attached because she wanted me to see him.
I didn’t even open them, I just responded, “He’s beautiful” and moved onto my next email.
Because I already know what that baby looks like. It looks like a baby. So unless it has a thumb growing out of it’s forehead or something, I really don’t need to see it.
And if it did have a thumb growing out of it’s forehead, I imagine she would have mentioned that in the body of the email. Something like: “You might notice that he has a thumb growing out of his forehead, the doctors have told us that this is a remnant of a vestigial twin that never completely formed in utero and they assure us that it’s temporary and it will wither and fall off very soon.
See, if it said that, I’d look at those pictures. Because that would be novel and interesting. But short of that, I have no reason to look at your baby. It’s just another baby.
