Chat log: re: Nakayama homestay with Sayuri

ximengna: so, what else happened with the homestay last night?
thejeffcho: well, i have to admit that i was really annoyed with the kid.
thejeffcho: he just keeps coming in, and growling like a possessed dog,
thejeffcho: spilling food everywhere, spitting food when fed, swinging arms when restrained,
thejeffcho: an obviously desperate bid for attention...but i guess he was only 3 going on 4 afterall.
ximengna: yeah...he must have been really excited by having visitors
ximengna: maybe he's never really had captive foriegners before
ximengna: but kids and food are just a bad combo without a wetsuit
ximengna: i don't know how any of it ever makes it to their stomachs
thejeffcho: tell me about it.
thejeffcho: i hate to say this but i just really have no patience with kids like that...and amy kept oohing and ahhing at him...she is good at playing with the kids and getting their attention, but she is not so good at calming them down.
ximengna: yeah, i feel ya
thejeffcho: he just gets wilder and wilder and wilder and made a terrible mess on the tatami...a wine stain...
thejeffcho: neither amy nor sayuri blinked an eye, guess who's the one cleaning it up?
ximengna: that's odd
thejeffcho: nope. no discipline whatsoever. it was just a few drops of wine though.
ximengna: sucks to clean up after someone else's 3-yr-old in their house
ximengna: i'll have to remind my kids to skip that stage
thejeffcho: is it really a stage? i mean, i lived with my aunt when my two baby cousins lived there too (5 and 3), and they weren't like that with other people. i seriously think this kid has some lose screws or something.
ximengna: maybe he's hyper
ximengna: kids are all different...who knows
thejeffcho: in his defense, he has been sick since last friday and hasn't been to school since..i guess he's just got a lot of pent up energy.
ximengna: that could be it
thejeffcho: but he was just really getting under my skin, and both amy and sayuri still think he's acting like the cutest thing in the world and that made it so much worse. am i already becoming a grumpy old man?
ximengna: nah...you're just not a babies-are-cute person
ximengna: i have an aversion to badly behaved children myself
thejeffcho: that's it. no more baby/kid talk.