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"He came up to my desk and saw a photo of my cat on there.... he said ' Is that your cat?' I said ' Yes, isn't he lovely?' he replied ' I don't like cats'.

Fine.. whatever.

He then had photos of his daughter and when I went to ask him a question he said ' Look, that's my daughter in the school play'

'I don't like kids'.

He's never said anything to me since."

Wow....what a response....you guys are so quick witted!

I've never held a baby before and don't intend to. I am usually very polite to parents though and usually try to say something nice about the baby. Most of them look like little aliens to me but there are some that I think are cute. I would never tell someone that the baby was cute or whatever just to appease them. I only save that for when the baby/child truly is cute.

I don't "hate" kids and I'm lucky that most of my friends' children are of the intelligent and polite variety. It's hard being around a brat.

Well, I don't know if something's wrong with me, but most babies are really ugly to me. I don't like them because they always drivel...*Yuck*

Nearly every woman loves the smell of babies. For me they always smell like sh*** diapers.....

I am a mother and I never thought babies are especially cute. As for the smell, they can be not so fresh and quite often.

I never really wanted kids, but now I have 4. I love my own, but other people's children annoy me. Too many parents think their children are the best in the world when they are really little snots.

I love some babies...but not all. Some seem to have more drool and snot than others. Some have louder, more annoying cries.

If you think parading the new off spring through the workplace is bad.....I once worked with a pregnant woman who would, at least once a week, expose her pregnant belly and go around and insist that everyone feel her belly because the larva was moving. Talk about gross. Of course the larva had to be paraded through the office once hatched and, of course had to dirty it's diaper. The mother was just going to change it right there on the desk next to mine and was highly indignant when I told her that was unacceptable and she had to take it into the ladies room.

I'm fond of most babies. Clean, adorable, personable babies. The thing that annoys me is that when people see me holding a baby, they begin to coo and say how 'natural' I look with the infant, and automatically assume that I want one of my own. I've held a bunny before, and think they're adorable, but I don't want one of my own.

I think some babies are cute, some (a few) are gorgeous ditto for kids. But I don't usually go goo ga over them certainly not all of them.
Once this lass I used to work with had her husband bring the baby so a colleauge could see the baby (I'd already seen a huge overblown photo of him) and when he rang the bell I said "Hello! I'll just go get J..." and I did.
I didn't gush at all.
And my colleague, the baby's mum (no longer working there) looked at me like "Huh, THAT'S interesting! I GET it now, I REALLY do, you don't have that baby gene thing, biological clock going on, fair enough."
She didn't say anything but her look said it all, not in a bad way.
My ex who dislikes babies was given a drooling baby to hold once by some relatives of his when we went to visit his father once. He was really uncomfortable and was grossing out to me about the drool and how he couldn't stand it. And I thought they shouldn't try to force him to hold the baby, he'd TOLD them he didn't want to,
and I also felt sorry for the baby, maybe it picked up those vibes!!!
Cause I work with kids, as you know, I end up thinking most kids in my class are lovely - especially this years' bunch, on the whole, not all - and yes really REALLY cute! - but it's like an overdose. It's like working in an ice cream shop and you eat the ice cream all day before you sell some and then you're REALLY SICK of ice cream
and then when you're out with friends and they say "LOOK! There's ICE CREAM, YUMMY!" you sort of think "Eh, Whatever, yawn! My GOD I feel like I'm back at work, get me OUT of there!"
But actually it's worse than that
cause it's like you work with the ice cream and yet
you may have chosen that job but you never REALLY had
THAT much of a sweet tooth!
Or at least not enough of a sweet tooth that you wanted to eat ice cream away from work in your free time!

Why don't people understand that poop is meant for the bathroom? I can't care who is doing it. Don't get it near my desk or table, and don't talk about it while I'm eating. I think that's a pretty reasonable expectation.

I do love babies, I can't deny it. I don't like it when they grow up! But my friend, who is very pretty, had two really ugly babies. It was like, "let me see the baby, oh, how - UGH! What IS that thing?" Hehe.

My sister's kids are absolutely gorgeous. She's had strangers stop her to tell her they should be in commercials.

I really prefer it when kids are under 9 or so. After that they just get icky.

I one told Chaco (where is she lately, BTW?) that if one of us ever accidentally had a kid, I'd take the kid the first 10 years and she could have it after that.